By Xan Lopez. In this talk we will present how GNOME developers can merge their applications and our desktop with the web. We'll show how to build applications from scratch using a combination of the latest web technologies like CSS3, SVG and JavaScript and our beloved and venerable platform. We will also present a sneak preview of our plans for total integration between the Shell and Epiphany, including: how to make popular web applications first class citizens of our desktop, tab navigation, bookmarks and history merged into the Shell, and much more!

1. Blending the web and the desktop
Xan López

2. The web

3. The average computer user spends 80% of her time on the Web[1]
1: Not meant to be factually correct

4. GNOME targets the average user

5. ~80% of our resources should go to make the web better in GNOME

6. We don't do this

7. How to change things

8. 3 step plan

9. Step 1

10. Carl Sagan

13. If you want to integrate the web into GNOME

14. First you have to write your own web platform

15. WebKit

17. WebKitGTK+

18. 1.4 in April (3.0)

19. 1.6 in October (3.2)

20. Used all over the place in GNOME

22. WebKit2GTK+ when it's done (aiming for 3.4!)

23. WebKit talk by Alex, Joone and Martin

24. Yesterday 2:00PM at Kinosaal

26. Or wait for the videos

27. Step 2

28. Alan Kay

29. People who are serious about software should make their own hardware.

30. People who are serious about making an OS should make their own browser.

31. Epiphany

32. 3.0 in April

33. Epiphany/WebKit ~= Epiphany/Gecko

34. You have to run very fast to stay in the same place.

35. Hard

36. Outnumbered, outresourced

37. Jon McCann

38. Tuesday

39. Step 3

40. Daniel Burnham

41. Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and
probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in
hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded
will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing,
asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

42. GNOME 3 spirit

43. Web application integration

44. Web applications as first class citizens

45. apple-touch-icon[1]
1: http://developer.apple.com/library/iOS/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

46. "Sandboxed" browser process per domain

47. Chrome-less

48. Shell integration

49. Demo (WIP)

50. (If you didn't spend the rest of the talk playing Angry Birds, continue here)

52. Managing web apps

53. Smarter screenshot selection as icon

54. HTML5 notifications on the shell

55. Application development with JS/CSS

56. SeedKit BoF with Alexandre Mazari, Friday, Room 1301