By Tobias Nilsson
8th June 2010. 22:35

Thoughts from SWDC 2010…

Last week we attended the SWDC 2010 event in Stockholm which ran over two-days from Wednesday 2nd to Thursday 3^rd of June. The days were back-to-back with interesting sessions but we were mainly there for the second day which was focused on mobile.

Claes Nilsson and myself decided to talk about some of the work we are doing with standards and also the various tools and ideas we have available now and coming soon. We wanted developers to come and join us within W3C and get involved in some of the on-going standards work.

We are working on ways to expose phone features to the web runtime where we have 4 platforms and the common thread is the web browser – the cost is that you need to target lowest common denominator to work across platforms so we are trying to increase the default capabilities available and make them consistent.

The development of standards usually takes a long time – the trade-off in having well thought out and, as much as can be, long-term future relevance. We presented some middle-grounds, such as the WebSDK but also some prototypes of entirely web-based tools.

The main focus of our session was our ”WARP” (Web Application Runtime Platform) demo upon the X10. In essence it is a server that allows the web browser, through user-granted approval, to access and query the phone. Our intention is take ”real world” lessons-learned from implementation and testing and roll them back into the specifications work.

We had a small setup outside the main presentation area with some X10, X10 mini and X10 mini pros. The feedback was great and we really appreciated the time we got with people as they tested out apps – in some cases even some live coding to optimise layouts.

We would like to thank @petersvensson for putting on the event and his team of volunteers who did a great job.

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