FlyWeb

The web already powers the world's email, media, shopping, and more. Interacting with these things is a breeze because they all use the web. What if the electronics around us were the same?

Meet FlyWeb. FlyWeb is a very simple idea at its core. Instead of phones interacting only with the cloud, they can discover and interact with electronics around them that are running empty web clients, such as TV's, projectors, game consoles, etc. The electronics come to life when connected to phones. The key here is that either the phones serve web apps to these electronics, or the electronics serve web apps to the phones.

Why?

The connected devices market is ready to explode. As the market grows, much like the early internet, these devices are being segregated into walled gardens of one-off proprietary initiatives, such as AirPlay, the Google Cast API, etc. These solutions not only lock their users into specific vendor ecosystems -- to the benefit of those vendors and detriment of their users -- but also require significant investment to solve each use case.

Many of these connected devices initiatives have common underlying platform needs:

• to discover and connect devices together,
• enable bi-directional communication,
• allow arbitrary, but secure code execution on each side,
• and require knowledge of as few details of a device's peers as possible.

The web is the best platform for serving all of these needs. Indeed, it has been designed for them for over a decade.

What about IoT?

FlyWeb is not just IoT.

Proposal

Draft Specification

Draft Specification Link

See Also

• User and Market Research: Due to the confidential nature of the interviews, and our respect for our interviewees' privacy, we are restricting access to this information.

Demo Videos

• Teasers. We don't plan to build any of these anytime soon.
  • Developer commentary over this video.
• Early-stage browser casting demo.

Strategy Essays

• 2015-05 Operational Overview
• 2015-07 In-depth Strategy Document

Related Initiatives

• Google's "Physical Web" Initiative
• Constrained Application Model - Internet of Things

Related APIs

• W3C Presentation API
• Mozilla Smart TV's
• KDDI Web-Cast
• Discovery and Launch (DIAL)

Communication

Video Conferencing - Vidyo Room

Quick link to join with the Vidyo app (prompts install if needed)

We have our own Vidyo room for meetings. Contributors and non-employees are welcome to attend all meetings. Here are the full details for joining:

"FlyWeb" Vidyo Room

Hello, You have been invited to attend a Mozilla Vidyo conference. Please click on the link below to attend: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=8uhXHJqVblWNGubS4x0he1qB810 If you do not have a user account, please enter your name in the "Guest Name" field and then click "Join". To join from a telephone, dial one of the following numbers depending on your nearest location: US Toll Free +1 800 707 2533, pin 369, conf 98860 US/CA/Mountain View +1 650 903 0800, extension 92, 98860 US/CA/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, extension 92, 98860 US/OR/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, extension 92, 98860 CA/BC/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, extension 92, 98860 CA/ON/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, extension 92, 98860 UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, extension 92, 98860 FR/Paris: +33 1 184 883 737, extension 3, extension 92, 98860 DE/Berlin: +49 30 983 333 000, extension 92, 98860 NZ/Auckland: +64 9 555 1100, extension 92, 98860

Team

• Doug Sherk (:drs) - product management
• Kannan Vijayan (:djvj) - engineering
• Justin D'Arcangelo (:justindarc) - engineering
• Jonas Sicking (:sicking) - specifications
• Nicole Yee (:nicoleyee) - project management

Project Management

Trello dashboard

We use Trello for project management. All ongoing tasks are listed there.

Meetings

Anyone is welcome to attend FlyWeb meetings.

The FlyWeb team has two weekly standups open to the public to accommodate different time zones:

Every Monday @ 10:00AM PST

Every Thursday @ 5:00PM PST

Notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/flywebtaipei

Calendar

Calendar

The FlyWeb team has a public calendar with every team meeting.

Instructions for Adding to your Calendar

1. Open the calendar.
2. Click on the "+ Google Calendar" button in the very bottom right of your screen.

You can also use the XML and ICS methods, but these are not recommended.

Note: The "Find a Time" feature will not work for other people if you import this calendar. As a consequence, others will not see that you are unavailable when attending a FlyWeb meeting. We suggest either accepting this, or adding the meetings to your main calendar as well.

Standups

We have weekly standups on Mondays at 10 am PT (17:00 UTC). These happen in the FlyWeb Vidyo room.

All meeting minutes

2015-Q3

• 2015-08-13 - Standup, late
• 2015-08-12 - Use case culling
• 2015-08-12 - Technical materials compilation