Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
Architect for #opendata & #openstandards. Advisor on technology policy. Co-founder of 300_Seconds. Data & security geek. Active in UK gov and W3C; views mine.
Today’s @tag meeting:
• ReportingObserver - and the choice between JSON and structured headers
• Carrying web resources in MPEG containers
• Privacy issues in introducing Request.isReloadNavigation and Request.isHistoryNavigation
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/telcons/06-26-agenda.md
Today's @tag meeting:
• HTML 5.3 — especially privacy around the PNG attribute
• Inline replies to (mobile) notifications — e.g. replying to a tweet without opening Twitter
• Async cookie store API — for service workers to interact with cookies
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/telcons/06-19-agenda.md
Today's @tag meeting was mostly a triaging meeting:
• Permission delegation
• Reporting observer
• HTTP header structure
• Replies in mobile notifications
• CSS logical properties & values
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/telcons/06-12-agenda.md
“I am aware of being guided. Shepherded. Nudged.”
@hondanhon@twitter.com explores our right to remain silent when Facebook prompts us for more info. Or Reddit wants consent with only one choice of button: “Got it”.
This is worth a read.
https://medium.com/@hondanhon/you-have-the-right-to-remain-silent-6c5df21db27f
Today’s @tag meeting:
• Permission delegation
• ReportingObserver
• Lifecycle API
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/telcons/06-05-agenda.md
Today’s @tag meeting:
• Catching up with progress on WebXR (virtual reality & augmented reality thru the browser) — and its relationship to the Gamepad API. Guests @trevorfsmith@twitter.com @kearwoodgilbert@twitter.com
• TAG draft guidelines for designing web components
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/telcons/05-29-agenda.md
We need to start doing better. For privacy, for bandwidth, for speed, for those of us who appreciate the value of news that isn’t personalised… We need to build a better web.
6/6
And that’s in the developed world; we’re in danger of excluding users in developing countries from much of “our” web. We could make a huge dent in the #digitaldivide just by building sites (or “lite” versions of sites) with less bloat.
5/6
Page size also matters because bandwidth has a cost. We are working hard on 5G and fibre to support pages & sites that are getting bigger. How much would be necessary with a lighter-weight web? Or how much more could we use for streaming, VR or other high-bandwidth use cases?
4/6
And yes, advertising is necessary revenue to keep the site going. I’m not against that, but wow. Delivering it this way comes with a hefty cost — in bandwidth, processing power and time it takes to load. Not to mention privacy.
3/6
Yes, some of that tracking personalises the site, which you could argue is for the user — but I don’t want personal. I want to learn, which means reading viewpoints I wouldn’t have indicated a preference for.
2/6
Speaking as a user — THIS 500 KB site is the web I want.
Speaking as someone who worries about the architecture of the web — I keep thinking that we’ve built a platform that is serves, in this example: 9% content, 91% ads and tracking.
1/6
(@tag)
https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/1000166112615714816/
Really enjoyed tonight’s premiere of @ForEveryoneNet@twitter.com about the creation of the web — though I fear @timberners_lee@twitter.com dropped a rather massive piece of homework on us afterwards… #BuildTheRestOfTheWeb
/cc @tag
Hard to believe this is one of the busiest cities in the world. #london
Today’s @tag mtg
• Async clipboard API, for copy/paste when remotely accessing another machine thru the browser
• Keyboard Map API, for when user has a different keyboard layout but your game still uses specific keys (WASD = ZQSD on a French keyboard)
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/telcons/05-15-agenda.md
Today’s @tag meeting featured a bit more on permission delegation and reporting observer...
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/telcons/05-08-agenda.md
Today’s @tag meeting included:
• more wrestling with private browsing and what we might contribute
• breaking HTML into 32 separate issues
• async clipboard API and keyboard map API
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/telcons/04-24-agenda.md
“Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.”
Quite a moment, seeing the first statue of a woman unveiled in Parliament Square: Millicent Fawcett, suffragist.
Watching everyone respond to Mark Zuckerberg's Senate hearing reminds me of techies in the UK watching the Parliamentary debates on the Digital Economy Act in 2010.
I wonder… is this is a similar turning point for tech community involvement in tech policy in the US?
It’s fascinating, watching data #privacy go from being a specialist/fringe topic to this kind of mainstream. I’m so glad we’re all talking about it now.