Web In Progress – proposals
As promised I said I’m back with some project proposals for the WebInProgress contest. Please keep in mind that these are merely some examples, you can register your own proposal.
- Mobile VNC server – Implement a “lightweight” VNC server for mobile. What “lightweight” means must be defined.
- XSidebar – Implement an easy customizable/scriptable cross-browser sidebar. This is not part of a specific web page, but augments the web browser. It is usually implemented as web browser add-on.
- RSS mobile widget – a mobile widget (not standalone application) capable of displaying an RSS feed.
- Rendering engine in Firefox – implement a Firefox add-on that will integrate different rendering engines like IE (multiple versions), Webkit or Opera in Firefox. A project can implement only one rendering engine, and ideally all the projects will be interoperable.
- Anti-spam application for mobiles – an application that will block spam (SMS, email, instant messages) for mobile. This will integrate with a community anti-spam server.
- SyncML for bookmarks – define a SyncML protocol for bookmarks and implement it for mobile and/or major browsers.
- Mobile gallery – an image gallery that works with different source like local images, Flickr, Snapfish, Picassa, Google Images etc. New sources should be easy to configure and add.
- Mobile/desktop/web reporting widget – a widget that will display a chart (pie, bar etc) aggregating data from web services. The widget will be implemented on a mobile platform, desktop or within a web page.
- XSLT browser add-on – a browser add-on that is applying an XSLT and displaying result on-the-fly for the current tab.
- VoiceXML mobile browser (hint: leverage mobile voice recognition and speech synthesis capabilities of the device)
And in the end a few considerations for all the proposals
- For mobile applications the following platforms can be used: Android, webOS or any other major one. For a project, a team can consider only one implementation. It would be ideal that all the implementations (even from different teams) be interoperable and offer a similar user experience.
- For browsers add-ons the following browsers can be considered: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari.
Categories: Ideas, WebInProgress
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