There is a growing number of operating systems and applications frameworks that are based on, or integrate deeply with Web technologies: Intel & Samsung’s Tizen, HP (formerly Palm) WebOS, Mozilla’s boot2gecko, Windows 8 Metro apps, WAC, Webinos, PhoneGap to name a few.
In particular, most of these projects have JavaScript APIs to interact with features that are not available to browsers due to security and privacy concerns.
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Two weeks from now, the Paris Web conference, probably the best conference in France about Web craft, will open; at the very end of this conference, I’ll be animating a panel with representative from various browser vendors: Karl Dubost from Opera, Sam Dutton from Google, Paul Rouget from Mozilla, and David Rousset from Microsoft.
The focus of our panel will be to understand how browser vendors combine innovation with interoperability, competition with collaboration.
I’ve spent a fair amount of my spare time over the past few months writing a book (in French) on mobile Web design and development, with my colleague François Daoust.
The book is now finally available, under the title Relever le défi du Web mobile (taking up the mobile Web challenge) — it can be ordered for instance from Amazon.fr.
We’ve also built a Web site to accompany the book, lewebmobile.fr, which allows our readers to follow the various links given in the book, copy the code samples, and get corrections and updates as we produce them.