My talk at Brighton Barcamp 4 about W3C widgets and how we need web developers to drive the specs further. Also showing with what I won the Summer of Code Vodafone widget competition

1. W3C widgets for mobile
ow to win a
or h in 28
comp etition
lin es of code.
Christian Heilmann – Barcamp Brighton, England – September 2009

2. Mobile technology is sexy!

3. Developing for mobiles is a
bitch though.

4. We love web standards.

5. What keeps us from using
them though is outdated
technology.

6. So, to use the knowledge
we have and to embrace
the cool new mobile
world, there is a solution!

7. http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/

8. ...or for humans...

9. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/
2009/04/introduction_to.html

10. Widgets, like Air, Flash,
Jetpack or other defined
environments are great.

11. The reason is that the
standards work.

12. And in the widget case,
there is another big perk.

13. Another benefit is that you
have more rights to do
cool stuff in JavaScript.

14. OK, so what about the
winning thing?

15. I was in Cologne, Germany
for Vodafone’s Summer of
Widgets.

16. One of the hacks scraped
the web and showed a
translation.

17. http://isithackday.com/hacks/summerofwidgets/
translation.html

18. Which inspired me to do
this one:

19. ...and submit it.

20. I won the competition last
week (Netbook + Mobile)

21. How did I do it?

22. Rockstar?

23. Lazy!

24. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/

26. http://github.com/codepo8/MultiTweet/tree/master

27. http://github.com/codepo8/MultiTweet/tree/master
http://www.betavine.net/bvportal/resources/widgets/research

29. We need you now!

30. W3C widgets do not give
you access to the cool
mobile stuff yet.

31. Location, camera,
contacts, accelerometer...

32. The more web folk do
some cool widgets, the
faster this will happen.

33. Got you excited? Go for it!

34. C h e e r s !
Christian Heilmann
http://wait-till-i.com
http://developer-evangelism.com
http://twitter.com/codepo8