Tracking Other Upcoming Native Features
The Mozilla WebAPI project, on the web at https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI, has links to other device-native features that are slowly being exposed via JavaScript APIs. Although the majority of these are only tangentially interesting to game developers, some, such as the Vibration API (www.w3.org/TR/vibration/), could be used for interesting game feedback.
Mozilla also has a project called AreWeFunYet (on the web at www.arewefunyet.com) that is set up to track how the Gecko is doing as a platform for gaming. Although a lot of the details are Mozilla-specific, the project is worth looking at.
The W3C also has a Games Community Group, on the web at www.w3.org/community/games/, dedicated to “improve the quality of open web standards that game developers rely on to create games.” If you are interested in the future of HTML5 game development, this is a group worth joining.
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