Web developers face many limitations when trying to develop web
applications that match the functionality of desktop applications. Many people are working on
removing these limitations and helping make the open web an even more powerful platform.
Browsers have recently focused on and significantly improved JavaScript performance, and new
HTML5 and related APIs are currently being formulated and implemented, giving developers even
more capabilities. Through efforts like O3D, Chromium, and Native
Client, we want to contribute our technology and web development expertise to
developing and promoting open web standards that will ultimately help developers build better
apps and make their users happy.
Here are some of the developers who'll
be at Google
I/O (only 19 days away) and speaking or demoing their products built on open web
technologies:
Browser Perspectives: An Open
Discussion Web developers are asking more from today's browsers — more
speed, more functionality, and a greater ability to build web applications that make users
happy. To talk about how browser development happens with respect to new standards, such as
what influences decisions around which new APIs to implement first and how to implement new
features in the face of still-changing standards proposals, we have a panel with
representatives from Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera. The discussion will be moderated
by Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering at Facebook.
Bespin Project (Mozilla Labs) Bespin is a
Mozilla Labs experiment that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing
that also promotes the use of open standards. The Bespin web code editor is built on HTML5
technology. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith will be leading a session, Bespin and the Open Web,
where they talk about their experiences.
Opera Software Opera is actively involved in
contributing and deploying open web technologies. Specifically, they are currently helping
specify GeoLocation, HTML 5, CSS 3, cross-device widgets and SVG, amongst others, and dev.opera.comshowcases techniques and technologies to
developers. The Opera Dragonfly developer tools are built using the latest Web technologies.
Charles McCathieNevile will be one of the speakers on the Browser Perspectives
talk.
Yahoo! Pipes Pipes lets users
remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. This visual editor
allows you to drag pre-configured modules onto its canvas and wire them together. Pipes use
the HTML5 <canvas> tag extensively in the Pipes Editor and Pipe
thumbnails.
Large Animal Games Large Animal Games has developed over 75 games for a variety of platforms, many of which
are fully integrated with OpenSocial. They've developed a cross-network game platform called
Toga which enables the simultaneous deployment of games across multiple social networks,
including those that support OpenSocial. They're also in the process of developing a game
using O3D that
will ultimately be integrated with social networks via Toga.
Crazy Pixel Productions Crazy Pixel Productions is a full service 3D animation and game development studio that
specializes in top notch art and incredibly immersive worlds. Crazy Pixel has worked on
producing art for the O3D Beach demo and is now developing a new game based on
O3D.
You can also take a look at our sessions page for a full list of sessions. In particular, sessions under
the "Client" track focus on making changes in client products such as browsers to empower the
open web platform, implementing HTML5 and related APIs, discussions around 3D and native code,
and more. The Sandbox will include engineers of Google product teams that are
deploying open web technologies, like the Gmail for mobile HTML5 app, Native
Client, Chrome extensions, and O3D.
Google I/O is only 19 days from now - to sign up, go to code.google.com/io!
