On June 23rd, a few people from the Firefox, Safari, IE and Chrome teams
met at Microsoft to brainstorm
<https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/presentation/d/16uP_ofdyXeGXpz4iR1vyi-HDczyAEIH0B3VFI_SxIYY/edit#slide=id.p>
[1]
about opportunities for better collaboration in improving input-related
APIs (where interoperability has historically been relatively poor).
Detailed notes from the meeting and links to presentations are here
<https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1Bfcw9iR1SF2VYCXBegbqhbqWMim-ZEd7_iaQODE-RPY/edit#>
[2].
We identified the following areas as the most promising, and have agreed to
follow up in the relevant W3C lists:
Speccing mobile viewport behavior [CSSWG]
Exposing the visual viewport (eg. device-fixed) [CSSWG]
Future of touch events / pointer events [PEWG/TECG]
Hover/active rationalization [CSSWG]
Scroll response effects [FXTF/TECG]
Fractional scroll offsets [CSSWG]
If you've got questions about any specific area, rather than spam this
thread please *start a new thread on one of the relevant w3c lists *(and
feel free to cc me and Jacob).
Overall the mood was quite positive and I'm personally optimistic about the
opportunities here. Although we identified some substantial differences in
philosophy, I got the impression we all felt the urgency for improving the
web platform and recognized that interoperability (and hence collaboration)
was essential.
Rick
[1]
https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/presentation/d/16uP_ofdyXeGXpz4iR1vyi-HDczyAEIH0B3VFI_SxIYY/edit#slide=id.p
[2]
https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1Bfcw9iR1SF2VYCXBegbqhbqWMim-ZEd7_iaQODE-RPY/edit#