Hitchhiker's Guide to Web Standards
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A talk about getting involved in standards and contributing to the web platform. Discusses to navigate through web specifications and contribute to the platform!
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- 1. Hitchhiker¡¯s Guide to Web Standards
- 2. Dominic Farolino ? twitter.com/domfarolino ? github.com/domfarolino ? dom@chromium.org ? Senior @ University of Cincinnati ? Previously Microsoft, Mozilla ? Incoming @ Google ? Chromium Committer ? WHATWG Editor
- 3. What is this talk? @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 4. Background & History (this could really be its own talk) @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 5. Intro to technical bits of specs @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 6. How to get involved? (you can do it!!) @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 7. What is a ¡°standard¡±? Depends on the context @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 8. ¨Cyours truly ¡°A document specifying observable effects of tech with multiple independent implementations¡± @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 9. ¨Cyours truly ¡°A document specifying observable effects of tech with multiple independent implementations¡± @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 11. Unix OS¡¯s Web Tech @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 12. Unix OS¡¯s Web Tech HTTP @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 13. Unix OS¡¯s Web Tech HTTP JS @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 14. Unix OS¡¯s Web Tech HTTP JS Web Platform APIs @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 15. Unix OS¡¯s Web Tech HTTP JS Web Platform APIs @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 16. Unix OS¡¯s Web Tech HTTP JS Web Platform APIs @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 17. Unix OS¡¯s Web Tech HTTP JS Web Platform APIs @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 18. Unix OS¡¯s Web Tech HTTP JS Web Platform APIs @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 19. Where do Web APIs come from? @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 20. const logicalAnswer = ¡°JavaScript¡± @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 23. What is JavaScript ? Just a language ? History ? Standardized by ECMAScript ? Multiple independent implementations exist @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 24. ES Engines ? V8 (Chrome) ? Chakra (Edge) ? SpiderMonkey (Firefox) ? JavaScriptCore (Safari/WebKit) @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 28. ECMAScript ? Needed to be a general standard @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 29. ECMAScript ? Needed to be a general standard ? Speci?es only a language; separation of concerns ? Syntax, semantics, constructs, primitives ? Language should not know about its environment at all ? No explicit knowledge of language¡¯s host (DOM / fetch() / etc) @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 30. Web API Origins ? Not part of the language itself ? E?ectively ¡°mixins¡±, baked into UAs like browsers ? Browsers ¡°support¡± implementations of these standards @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 31. Web Standards Bodies @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 33. WHATWG ? Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 34. WHATWG ? Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ? Formed in 2004 @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 35. WHATWG ? Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ? Formed in 2004 ? Canonical standards: ? HTML ? DOM ? Fetch ? Streams @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 37. ES Array, WeakMap, Date
- 38. ES DOM APIs Array, WeakMap, Date document.querySelector
- 39. ES DOM APIs Fetch/Networking Array, WeakMap, Date document.querySelector fetch(), Request(), ¡
- 40. ES DOM APIs Fetch/Networking Console Array, WeakMap, Date document.querySelector fetch(), Request(), ¡ console.{log, count, ¡}
- 41. Anatomy of a standard @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 45. Look and Feel @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 49. JS Type (Object, String, Number, Symbol, Boolean) Web Developer Web IDL Conversion
- 50. Web IDL Sheriff JS Type (Object, String, Number, Symbol, Boolean) Web Developer Web IDL Web IDL Conversion
- 51. Successful callWeb IDL Sheriff JS Type (Object, String, Number, Symbol, Boolean) Algorithm Web Developer Web IDL Web IDL Conversion
- 52. Code Jail Web Developer Web IDL Sheriff JS Type (Object, String, Number, Symbol, Boolean) TypeErrorWeb IDL Web IDL Conversion
- 55. Why use Web IDL? @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 56. Why use Web IDL? ? Abstraction over ECMAScript text @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 57. Why use Web IDL? ? Abstraction over ECMAScript text ? Takes care of things for us: ? Property init (Prototype chain, property descriptors, ¡) ? Type conversion ? Where to expose interfaces @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 58. Why use Web IDL? ? Abstraction over ECMAScript text ? Takes care of things for us: ? Property init (Prototype chain, property descriptors, ¡) ? Type conversion ? Where to expose interfaces ? Don¡¯t have to use it @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 59. How I got involved? @domfarolino dom@chromium.org
- 67. Things I¡¯ve done ? Changed how fetch() works
- 68. Things I¡¯ve done ? Changed how fetch() works ? Changed how module scripts are fetched
- 69. Things I¡¯ve done ? Changed how fetch() works ? Changed how module scripts are fetched ? <script referrerpolicy=¡°¡±>
- 70. Things I¡¯ve done ? Changed how fetch() works ? Changed how module scripts are fetched ? <script referrerpolicy=¡°¡±> ? Implemented console APIs
- 71. Things I¡¯ve done ? Changed how fetch() works ? Changed how module scripts are fetched ? <script referrerpolicy=¡°¡±> ? Implemented console APIs ? Priority Hints