On Aug 13, 2008, at 6:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've been following the webkit-dev list for a while now, and I
though that it might be good time to introduce myself and the
project that we have been working on with a small team.
First some general high level introduction jargon for managers or
such ;)...
Motivation:
Finger-touchable direct manipulation of 2.5D visual objects with
gestures is the new emerging UI paradigm with personal navigation
devices. However, the new paradigm has not reached the web yet --
there is no way a web developer can embrace the new interaction. In
this project we will look into bringing finger touch and gestures to
the web framework in order to accelerate easy web usage with mobile
devices, with the goal of mobile devices becoming the primary web
access method instead of laptops.
This project is about:
To create innovative web representation platform
Multi-touch, accelerometer (rotation, shaking) and haptics based
interaction mechanisms
Enriching the mobile web content with 2.5D graphics with hardware
accelerated rendering
New JavaScript interaction APIs, Haptics CSS extensions
Have you looked at the WebKit team's proposal for 2.5D graphics and
transitions?
http://webkit.org/specs/CSSVisualEffects/CSSTransforms.html
http://webkit.org/specs/CSSVisualEffects/CSSTransitions.html
These are now on track to become W3C standards and are already
implemented on iPhone (2D portions only on desktop WebKit currently).
Also, have you looked at how touch and accelerometer events work on
Safari on iPhone?
I am excited to see contributions from Nokia, but we would want to
make sure that advanced WebKit features remain consistent in API
between platforms.
Regards,
Maciej
High Level Architecture: (disclaimer: this is only high level
architecture and some aspects might change during the project)
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What we have already up and running:
- Prototype implementation OpenGL ES 1.1 accelerated QT-WebKit
running on ARM based Internet Tablet device (such as N810),
reference implementations of the draft JS API's are somewhat working
(no haptics yet tough). JavaScript test pages receives touch gesture
DOM and accelerometer events quite nicely.
I'm wondering if people in this mailing list would be interested to
look and give feedback/comments to our JS API draft versions and
general feedback for us to see if this would be beneficial for end
users. More detailed draft architecture specifications are also
available upon request.
Our intention is to start contributing our implementation efforts
back to open source, if WebKit community would be interested to
receive it? :)
You can also find me in IRC idling 24/7 on #webkit channel with
nick: Jonni
Regards, Jonni
--
Jonni Rainisto
Specialist, Nokia Devices R&D / Technology Strategy and
Architecture / Technology Foresight / New Technology Initiatives
Gsm: +358 50 3038358 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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