Another billion browsers and internet of things - Martin Jakl

• there is a new generation of lower powered devices coming, they'll be connected to the internet

Web and mobile - the next generation

• todays smart phones run a version of the desktop browser, will we make the same mistake with the next generation?
• WAP - huge investment, nobody really used it
• WAC 2.0 - was like HTML5, but not quite. HTML5 beat it to the market, nobody really used it

The Internet of Things

• for example
  • smart sensors
  • wearables
  • connected hours
  • connected car
  • etc
• Raspberry Pi
  • Epiphany - Fast, modern browser for the Raspberry Pi
  • low powered device running the latest web tech
• Samsung Gear 2
  • runs WebKit
  • developing for it is developing WebKit widgets

IoT issues

• ease of development
• security / privacy
• less powerful hardware

Lets us WebKit

• advantages
  • existing dev-tools
  • community
  • known quantity
• security
  • https, TLS & SSL
• privacy
  • cookies
  • web storage
  • CORS
• memory usage
  • important not to use too much memory on low-power devices
  • need to be aware of memory usage and garbage collection
  • existing functionality to has been proven in WebKit desktop

Going forward

• developers and designers need to consider memory optimisation for next-gen devices
• we need better memory management in WebKit

Conclusion

Performance and hardware acceleration is not the big issue, memory usage is.