Introduction to W3C widgets – my presentation at Brighton Barcamp 4
This saturday I went down to Brighton to attend the fourth Brighton Barcamp. As you are supposed to give a talk and “PPK”:http://quirksmode.org had stopped over on his way to the airport I thought the time right to give a talk about what I learnt about “W3C widgets”:http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/ working with PPK and Vodafone the last few weeks:
- Whilst W3C widgets are nothing groundbreakingly new, they allow you to use web technologies (CSS, HTML, JS) on lots and lots of mobile phones
- The main idea about a widget is not what technology you use but how useful the end product is. My “submission for the summer of widgets competition”:http://github.com/codepo8/QuickTrans/tree/master is neither a visual nor a technical masterpiece, but it still won a weekly prize because of its usefulness.
- W3C Widgets are a great opportunity to bring our web development skillsets to a new market and break into a very closed environment
- It is a lot of fun to build them, as you are not tethered by bad browser implementations and you can use clever things in your JavaScript
Check out the slidecast on SlideShare:
The audio quality is not the best mainly because of the location (in the basement) and Simon Willison delivering a very loud talk about 5 meters down the hall.
You can also “get the audio recording – 17MB MP3“:http://www.archive.org/download/Barcampbrighton4-IntroductionToW3cWidgetsAndHowToWinACompo/IntroductionToW3cWidgetsAndHowToWinACompetitionIn28LinesOfCode.mp3 from “archive.org”:http://www.archive.org/details/Barcampbrighton4-IntroductionToW3cWidgetsAndHowToWinACompo
Tags: barcampbrighton4, bcb4, summerofwidgets, vodafone, w3cwigets
September 7th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Introduction to W3C widgets – my presentation at Brighton Barcamp 4 [link to post]
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September 7th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Introduction to W3C widgets – @codepo8 [link to post]
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September 7th, 2009 at 8:28 am
»Introduction to W3C widgets« von @codepo8: [link to post]
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September 7th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Christian :)
whenever I see your slides – I wish I’d seen the talk and that I had more of a developer’s head….
Fun to follow your bursts of genius regardless though :)
September 7th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
another great talk Christian. Your getting me hooked on YQL… :)
September 10th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Christian, All – FYI, on 23-July-2009, the W3C’s Web Applications WG (WebApps) published a Candidate Recommendation of the Widgets 1.0 Packaging and Configuration spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-widgets-20090723/
See the following for the latest publication status of WebApps’ Widgets specification suite:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/PubStatus#Widgets_Specifications
November 5th, 2009 at 11:29 am
RT @codepo8: Intro to w3c widgets: [link to post] – source of my compo winner widget http://is.gd/4NJgO #fronteers09
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November 5th, 2009 at 11:52 am
RT: @codepo8: Intro to w3c widgets: [link to post] – source of my compo winner widget http://is.gd/4NJgO #fronteers09
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November 5th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Mobile GUIs for data.gov.uk? RT @codepo8 Intro to w3c widgets [link to post] – source of my compo winner widget http://is.gd/4NJgO
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November 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Actually pondering Mobile GUI inputs for SocMed streams 4 CMS content when watching RT @codepo8 Intro to w3c widgets [link to post]
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November 5th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
RT @nhoizey: RT @codepo8: Intro to w3c widgets: [link to post] – source of my compo winner widget http://is.gd/4NJgO #fronteers09
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November 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
RT @codepo8: Intro to w3c widgets: [link to post] – source of my compo winner widget http://is.gd/4NJgO #fronteers09
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