WebAPI/2013-06-04

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WebAPI Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-06-04 - 10:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98413
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• WebAPI Vidyo Room / SF-Golden Gate (3rd floor) / Toronto-Spadina
• Join irc.mozilla.org #webapi for back channel

Notes will be taken on etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes

Agenda

• Regrets from Mounir: PTO
• topics for work week discussions
  • appcache / navigation controller (Thursday and/or Friday so jduell can participate)
    • not a real spec yet so unclear what we can do at this point; lifecycle, etc. still TBD
    • Jonas wants to look at declarative piece with Twitter/FT Labs/etc.
    • use case investigation with developers is very important (Travis & rnyman & co), especially for declarative piece
  • filesystem api
  • background pages vs. background workers
  • datastore api
  • shared workers: what's the point? (a new sitcom starring bent)
  • worker apis + cycle collection: where are we?
  • background services + push
  • team haircut for 2013 (ask annevk)

• Futures & existing APIs
  • ex. WebRTC - do we change it to use Futures and thus make it slip?

• some medium-term partner requests
  • Bluetooth low energy support (just in drivers?) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy
  • BT audio streaming
    • move from higher level BT specs to raw BT socket?
    • stream APIs could be very useful here; work to be done here
  • temperature sensor
  • multiple displays

• W3C TAG F2F last week in London (annevk, marcosc)
  • http://annevankesteren.nl/2013/06/london-tag
  • layering of web platform; platform is described largely through itself (primitives, high level APIs)
• Jonas and others are meeting next week with Google about manifests, etc.
  • he'll try to arrange some sort of video thing
  • annevk: concerns about background pages. can Yehuda be invited?
• status: http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/weekly-updates.fcgi/project/webapi
  • please put your status there on Mondays
  • ask questions about other people's status if you have them