Noticed this story on Ajaxian today!
http://ajaxian.com/archives/intel-web-20-technology-development-kit-tdk
I haven't had a chance to look at it yet myself, but looks like it might
be interesting for developing apps, especially with the offline
capabilities coming up in Firefox 3, I could see some nice thin-client apps.
From Ajaxian:
Have you ever wished that you could |getPercentRemaining()| to find out
the battery charge left in a users device, or |getProtocolRateTx()| to
find out about the connectivity of a device?
These are some of the methods available in the Intel Web 2.0 Technology
Development Kit (TDK)
<http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/336424.htm>.
Imagine if your Web 2.0 application could be aware of the platform
it is running on and its environment. It could, for example,
leverage multi-core power to provide more immersive user interfaces,
postpone certain tasks during low power situations, avoid network
traffic over low bandwidth/high latency connections, etc.
The Intel® Web 2.0 Technology Development Kit (TDK) allows
developers to learn about the platform’s configuration, e.g.
display, storage, processor, and the platform’s context, e.g.
bandwidth, connectivity, power and location, etc. within a browser
using JavaScript.
The Intel® Web 2.0 TDK contains documentation and full source code
(C++ and JavaScript) for IE 6/7 and Firefox. The code can be
incorporated directly in your extensions or JavaScript libraries,
and be redistributed royalty free.
I have to admit… I wouldn’t have guessed that this would be the next API
out of Intel!
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