The W3C and Vodafone are hosting a Workshop on The Future of Off-line Web Applications on 5 November 2011, in Redwood City, California. According to the workshop website,
The goal of this workshop is to identify a clear path forward for innovation in the Open Web Platform related to offline Web application invocation and use.
As I’ve done for previous events, I’ve prepared a paper entitled “Misconceptions about W3C Widgets” (PDF, I know… I’ll publish it here in HTMLs when I get some time).
As I am on the program committee, it means I get to review papers. I’ve actually read all the papers that have come in thus far, and it looks like it’s going to be fun workshop. The other program committee members have been a bit slack, however. I’ve only seem papers from about 2 or 3 of them. I hope Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla submit something.
What usually happens after these workshops is that a new Working Group is established. This will probably either mean:
- The death of W3C Widgets: Google and Moz will make a powerplay and dump in their own JSON based widget format on the w3c (Moz’s offer, Google’s offer).
- Or, the rebirth of W3C Widgets: Google and Moz will come to their senses and finally embrace the W3C widget format (unlikely, but here’s to hoping:)).