The Web Platform

  • October 1994 (MIT)
  • Push the web to full potential
  • Enforce Cross compatibility
  • Adoption of Open Standards
  • Design by committee 

Ubiquity

Rich technologies helped the web move from 'document' to 'applications'

  • The Ajax revolution
  • HTML5
  • Single Page Apps (client side apps)
  • Tools & Frameworks
  • Develop once deploy everywhere (wrapper/hybrid apps)

An 'always updated distribution'

Web Platform

  • Evolving specifications and technologies
  • Always updated distribution
  • Ubiquity & openness
  • Frameworks and tools built on primitives

THE WEB IS LOSING ON MOBILE

Steve Jobs Introduces iPhone [2007]

THE WEB IS LOSING ON EXPERIENCE

Slacking areas...

  • Offline
  • Device Sensors
  • Discovery
  • Performance
  • Security and Privacy

The Extensible Web

The Web Application Facilitation Layer

"The Web platform is always playing catch-up"  - Abhinav Rastogi

The Web Hypertext Application Technology

Working Group

 

W3C- Community

  • TAG
  • Working groups
  • Members
  • Developers

Get Involved

  • Mailing Lists
  • Github
  • Meetups

Get rid of the notion: For web to win apps have to lose!

Together lets give the web platform the future it deserves!

Thank you

The Web Platform

By Aditya Punjani

The Web Platform

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