Apps for all the Web - Widgets, WAC, and beyond by Charles McCathieNevile

Apps for all the Web - Widgets, WAC, and beyond

by Charles McCathieNevile, "I like cooking, hanging around having a drink and a chat, and thinking."

W3C widgets allow you to make apps that work on a range of platforms, devices and OS, from TV to telephone as well as a laptop. All with a basic knowledge of HTML and a bit of javascript.

I'll talk about where you can use them, how to make them, and why the technology keeps getting used for new stuff - as well as how they fit into a world where everyone wants to own the app store and the underlying technology.

Charles McCathieNevile

@chaals my.opera.com

Charles McCathieNevile (better known to the world as "chaals") has been Chief Standards Officer at Opera since 2005, and is responsible for Opera's leading role in ensuring that the best of Web development is available to the world in the form of open standards. With more than two decades of experience in both commercial and academic hypertext systems, his personal interests are broad but include accessibility of the web to all people from all devices, and better ways to make information help people reach more of their goals more easily. He is co-chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group, and also involved in several other W3C working groups. Before joining Opera Charles worked on the Staff of W3C. In his spare time he is Vice President of the Iberoamerican Web accessibility group Sidar, tries to learn languages, and cooks.

A constant traveller, he speaks English, French and Spanish, and is trying to improve his Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Russian to be good enough to use them at work.