UWA
Activity Statement
The Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity
was launched on 30 March 2007 with the vision of enabling value-added
services and business models for ubiquitous networked devices, based
upon W3C's strengths in declarative representations.
- Developing standards for a new breed of web authoring solutions
that will make it much easier to assure security, accessibility and
end-user experience whilst reducing the development costs for
delivery to desktop, mobile and other channels. This is based upon
a multi-layered approach to user interfaces that separates out the
concerns of application developers from the details of how the user
interface is realized on specific devices.
- Enabling applications using multiple devices that reach out
into the physical world, in areas such as safety, security,
healthcare, environmental monitoring and control, home entertainment,
distributed work groups and just in time maintenance.
- Rich descriptions of devices, and the means to expose this
to Web applications and enable them to dynamically adapt to
changes in user preferences, device capabilities and environmental
conditions.
- Web-based framework for device coordination that exposes
local and remote resources via a device abstraction layer, enabling
applications to run over a heterogenous mix of networking
technologies and device generations.
The Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity will build upon
existing work on device independent authoring and delivery
contexts by the former Device
Independence Activity, together with new work as described
in the UWA Charter.
Highlights Since the Previous Advisory Committee Meeting
Upcoming Activity Highlights
- CC/PP
Structure and Vocabularies Version 2.0 is expected to move
to Candidate Recommendation.
- Device Independent
Authoring Language, is expected to move to Last Call Working
Draft.
- Expansion of the Delivery Context Ontology to cover a wider range
of properties including device location, and support for personalization.
This is being developed in collaboration with MWI DD and OMA
BT DCAP.
- Possible early re-chartering and inclusion of work items
on core vocabulary and DDR
API from the Device Descriptions Working Group which is due to
close mid-2008.
- Launch of an Incubator Group for a study of layered architectures
for user interfaces and end-to-end models combining state charts,
named event queues and rule languages.
- W3C Workshop on security, access control and associated trust
models, details to be announced.
More details of current and planned work can be found in the
roadmap and UWA Wiki.
Summary of Activity Structure
This Activity Statement was prepared for the
April 2008 W3C Advisory
Committee Meeting (Members only) per section 5
of the W3C Process Document.
Generated
from group data.
Dave Raggett, Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity Lead
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