Report from Barcelona: first meeting of the W3C automotive business group

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMqLMG4uRYIBGHO_3EDY2l-iA8U4UATEJI14VuO7seVxXDG0UBieY2wn8FytPx2bk10ZjtSCLZRunqR3XZRomweUnUPM2-xOZeELd-4odUyKQVZyLg5ILBybAS3eG1gRSNIWqDsm2GNM/s1600/andy_gryc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMqLMG4uRYIBGHO_3EDY2l-iA8U4UATEJI14VuO7seVxXDG0UBieY2wn8FytPx2bk10ZjtSCLZRunqR3XZRomweUnUPM2-xOZeELd-4odUyKQVZyLg5ILBybAS3eG1gRSNIWqDsm2GNM/s1600/andy_gryc.jpg" /></a></div>Last week, I had the privilege of attending the first face-to-face meeting of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform/">W3C automotive business group</a> and the honor of being nominated group co-chair. (The other co-chair is Adam Abramski, an open source project manager for Intel.) With more than 70 members, the group has already become the eight-largest group in the W3C, even though it is barely two months old. Clearly, it’s generating a lot of interest.<br /><br />The meeting included three presentations and two contributions. I presented on the lessons we’ve learned with the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/index.html">QNX CAR platform</a>, how we think the market is changing, and how these changes should drive HTML5 standardization efforts.<br /><br />I presented my three “musts” for standardizing HTML5 in the car:<br /><ol><li>Must create something designed to run apps, not HMIs (unless HMIs come along for free)</li><li>Must focus on mobile developers as the target development audience</li><li>Must support integration of HTML5 environments with native environments like EB Guide and Qt</li></ol>I described some of the changes that have resulted from the alignment of the QNX CAR platform with the <a href="http://cordova.apache.org/">Apache Cordova framework</a>, and why they are crucial to our HTML5 work. Unfortunately, we didn't have our W3C contribution ready due to these changes, but members generally agreed that having a standard consistent with mobile development was an appropriate course change.<br /><br />Tizen and GenIVI gave presentations about their vehicle APIs. Tizen has contributed its APIs, but GenIVI hasn't yet — still waiting on final approvals. Webinos contributed its APIs before the meeting, but didn’t deliver a presentation on its contribution; members had reviewed the Webinos work before the meeting.<br /><br />The meeting was a great chance to sit down with people I don’t normally meet. Overall, the group is moving in the right direction, creating a standard that can help automakers bring the goodness of HTML5 into the car.<br /><br />

Report from Barcelona: first meeting of the W3C automotive business group

Last week, I had the privilege of attending the first face-to-face meeting of the W3C automotive business group and the honor of being nomi...

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Pandora interview: Using HTML5 to deliver content to the car

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0vKFdANNh-jTOyYI5uOLlAKUMN-REZH4djStK-QBOsK9UoerIQkYQ0ooHBrNkqtH-GrWyv8RzFyiBUgJh52tiVvMuyf0VnYreB_3rcmHwB69_i-fK-HeVaPoF_cKnEM2ZXnTeHSrdHU/s1600/romain_saha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0vKFdANNh-jTOyYI5uOLlAKUMN-REZH4djStK-QBOsK9UoerIQkYQ0ooHBrNkqtH-GrWyv8RzFyiBUgJh52tiVvMuyf0VnYreB_3rcmHwB69_i-fK-HeVaPoF_cKnEM2ZXnTeHSrdHU/s1600/romain_saha.jpg" /></a></div>At CES this year, our own Andy Gryc had a chance to sit down with Tom Conrad, CTO at Pandora, a long-time QNX CAR platform partner. Pandora is already in 85 vehicle models today and continues to grow their footprint, not only in automotive but in consumer as well. <br /><br />Take a couple minutes to hear Tom's perspective on standardizing on HTML5 across markets and to get a glimpse of the future of Internet radio in automotive. And make sure you watch the whole thing — there's some fun outtakes at the end.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p2nQUM6Yya4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />

Pandora interview: Using HTML5 to deliver content to the car

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Creating HTML5 apps for the car

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMqLMG4uRYIBGHO_3EDY2l-iA8U4UATEJI14VuO7seVxXDG0UBieY2wn8FytPx2bk10ZjtSCLZRunqR3XZRomweUnUPM2-xOZeELd-4odUyKQVZyLg5ILBybAS3eG1gRSNIWqDsm2GNM/s1600/andy_gryc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMqLMG4uRYIBGHO_3EDY2l-iA8U4UATEJI14VuO7seVxXDG0UBieY2wn8FytPx2bk10ZjtSCLZRunqR3XZRomweUnUPM2-xOZeELd-4odUyKQVZyLg5ILBybAS3eG1gRSNIWqDsm2GNM/s1600/andy_gryc.jpg" /></a></div>Adding a downloadable app capability to the car isn't just a matter of bolting consumer-grade technology onto an automotive hardware platform, dusting your hands, and calling it a day.<br /><br />Apps should be integrated into the vehicle experience, which means they need access to vehicle resources. But you must carefully control that access: the apps should be isolated in their own environment to protect the rest of the car software. Most of all, the apps need to conform to safe driving practices, which typically entails a re-write of the user interface.<br /><br />Still, we should leverage as much as possible from the mobile world. That’s where the real innovation happens; the mobile community provides a much bigger pool of fresh ideas than automakers could ever build by themselves. And the best tools and libraries are focused on mobile development. <br /><br />That’s why QNX Software Systems is building the best of both: an application tool that draws heavily from mobile, but is adapted to the car. It's provisionally named the HTML5 SDK for the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/index.html">QNX CAR application platform</a> and, while it isn't yet available to the public, beta versions are now available for QNX CAR platform customers.<br /><br />For a preview of what we’ll be rolling out, check out this video:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n0RCqchiPRc?rel=0" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><br />

Creating HTML5 apps for the car

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Making your car a first-class citizen of the Web

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSEoe7FR5Qp0_VGVv6zW2bIF0Dg2WB0lnvFPXAaGBoSgJhyphenhypheno40mjM0_IOCIQa6lUfXZYeDFlAfRH3xKXPcV8EHNMV0XMn4uBNBxfWgKQWoXWV7gjDn1g3wTzavyA1fXn2i-CvSdh8Gg0/s1600/tina_jeffries_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSEoe7FR5Qp0_VGVv6zW2bIF0Dg2WB0lnvFPXAaGBoSgJhyphenhypheno40mjM0_IOCIQa6lUfXZYeDFlAfRH3xKXPcV8EHNMV0XMn4uBNBxfWgKQWoXWV7gjDn1g3wTzavyA1fXn2i-CvSdh8Gg0/s320/tina_jeffries_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><b>Tina Jeffrey</b></td></tr></tbody></table>Anyone who follows the latest ongoings of the Worldwide Web Consortium (<a href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a>) may have heard <a href="http://www.w3.org/2013/02/autobg.html.en">today’s news</a>: the launch of the Automotive and Web Platform Business group. We live in a connected world, and let’s face it, many of us expect access to our favorite applications and services while on the road. I see the formation of this W3C group as a huge step in the pursuit of marrying web technology and the automobile. <br /><br />The business group will bring together developers, OEMs, automotive technology vendors — many of who, like QNX, were part of <a href="http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/">Web and Automotive Workshop</a> held last November. The group allows us to continue the discussion and to define a vehicle data API standard for enabling automotive services via the Web. And this is just the start of greater things to come: standards for OTA (over-the-air) software updates, driver safety, security, and seamless integration of smart phones and tablets. <br /><br />As a member of the QNX automotive team, I second my colleague Andy’s enthusiasm in the announcement in saying we’re extremely excited to be part of this group and the process of helping to define these standards for the industry.<br /><br />Check out the W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2013/02/autobg.html.en">press release</a>.<br /><br /><hr /><br /><i>Tina is an automotive product marketing manager at QNX Software Systems</i><br /><i><br /></i>

Making your car a first-class citizen of the Web

Tina Jeffrey Anyone who follows the latest ongoings of the Worldwide Web Consortium ( W3C ) may have heard today’s news : the launch of the ...

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First look: HTML5 SDK for the QNX CAR platform

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF70n8XEFXd-WCle6B_N5zb1HOWT6A2287uJL5IptS__jCjo-sMeLzRAv-qrES7Wnj9wEZiA4bLTxtEtJfmSDnchUPzbOIeuufEo685uCHndKAp_EbWo2F-A2ermk7zqXoap_GTGgnSh0/s1600/paul_leroux_photo_crop_v3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF70n8XEFXd-WCle6B_N5zb1HOWT6A2287uJL5IptS__jCjo-sMeLzRAv-qrES7Wnj9wEZiA4bLTxtEtJfmSDnchUPzbOIeuufEo685uCHndKAp_EbWo2F-A2ermk7zqXoap_GTGgnSh0/s400/paul_leroux_photo_crop_v3.jpg" width="87" /></a>Whenever I hear the word “ripple,” I think of ice cream: butterscotch ripple, chocolate ripple, lemon ripple, and (yum) strawberry ripple. Well, the video I'm about to show you isn’t about ice cream, but it is about something that’s just as cool and just as sweet: the Ripple mobile environment emulator.<br /><br />Ripple already supports multiple platforms, such as BlackBerry 10 and Apache Cordova, allowing developers to preview how their apps will look and function on a variety of mobile devices. And now, thanks to extensions provided by the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/index.html">QNX CAR</a> development team, it will also emulate how an app looks and performs in a vehicle infotainment system. <br /><br />Simply put, the same tool that helps app developers target mobile platforms will also help them target the car.<br /><br />QNX Software Systems will offer this modded version of Ripple as part of the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_5309_2.html">HTML5 SDK for the QNX CAR platform</a>. The goal of the SDK is simple: to help mobile developers and automakers work together on creating apps for in-vehicle infotainment systems.<br /><br />If you’re a developer, you’ll be able to use the Ripple emulator and its associated Web Inspector to perform JavaScript debugging, HTML DOM inspection, automated testing, and screen-resolution emulation, all from the convenience of a web browser. You’ll also be able to modify your apps and view the results without having to recompile — simply edit your source code and hit refresh in the browser. You’ll even be able to perform remote debugging on the evaluation board or final hardware used by the automaker, again from the same browser environment.<br /><br />Enough from me. Let’s get the complete scoop from my colleague Andy Gryc:<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n0RCqchiPRc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />

First look: HTML5 SDK for the QNX CAR platform

Whenever I hear the word “ripple,” I think of ice cream: butterscotch ripple, chocolate ripple, lemon ripple, and (yum) strawberry ripple. W...

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