Tutorial:
Media advances on the Web Platform
The WebConference 2018 - W3C Track
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Title
– “
Media advances on the Web Platform
” by Michel Buffa (Wimmics Group, I3S laboratory/INRIA, University of Nice, France,
buffa@i3s.unice.fr
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Organizers
– Michel Buffa is a professor/researcher at Université
Côte
d’Azur, member of the WIMMICS research group that belongs to INRIA/CNRS. He is the W3C Advisory Committee
representative for the University of Nice, and has been collaborating with the W3C
for
many
years.
He wrote 3 MOOCS on Front-End Web technologies for the W3Cx MOOC platform (https://w3cx.org) hosted by edX. Over
300k students followed its courses on HTML5 and JavaScript since 2015.
He’s also in charge of the WASABI ANR research project (Web Audio Semantics Aggregated in the Browser
for Integration), and member of the W3C WebAudio working group. He developed many Web applications including
a semantic wiki, a real time tube guitar amplifier simulation presented at the last international WebAudio
conference (best paper presentation), many real time guitar effects, a multitrack player/DAW. He published
research papers in many international conferences about the Web and the Semantic Web.
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Abstract
– HTML5 became a frozen standard in October 2014. Since then, HTML5.1 and now 5.2 appeared and brought
small adjustments. This tutorial will present some of the new APIs fro; HTML5 or related:
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Multimedia -audio and video-,
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Drawing and animation -HTML5 canvas-,
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But many other APIs are closely related to HTML5: MediaDevices (WebCam, Microphones), WebComponents (reusable
widgets), WebAudio, WebMidi, fetch (new way to make Ajax requests), etc.