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I am excited to share that the W3C Web Thing Protocol Community Group has published the first draft of the Web Thing Protocol WebSocket sub-protocol, a dedicated real-time protocol…

I'm still not sure I've fully understood you, but I think you're probably making some assumptions about the business model around this and how it would be deployed, whereas the blo…

I'm not sure I understand your point. The idea of the hub is to consolidate (centralise) multi-vendor building management systems into a single unified interface, for the benefit o…

A whole building operating system, built on web technologies, which weaves together every sensor, actuator and human-computer interface in a building into a seamless user experienc…

Introducing Krellian Hub and Krellian Console, powered by WebThings, built on W3C WoT standards.

The Web of Things direct integration pattern [1] (running a web server directly on a device) is not a good fit for MCUs, with a few very high end exceptions (e.g. ESP8266 and ESP32…

I think that's a fair observation and I'm really excited about CHIP. The person driving CHIP at Apple was the person who originally hired me to work at Mozilla and I'm hopeful they…

To answer your question, the goal of the WebThings platform as a whole is to improve interoperability between connected devices by making the Web of Things a unifying application l…

Interesting. That's very different to what WebThings provides today but that's something I'd like to see too and have toyed with building in the past. Chromecast was once very clos…

I'm pleased to report that WebThings isn't dead, it is alive and kicking with a new commercial sponsor. The Thing Description specification at the core of WebThings is now a W3C Re…

The WebThings platform was a four year project at Mozilla which sadly ended when their Emerging Technologies department was wound down, as part of a recent round of layoffs affecti…

Sorry to hear that and I'm very sad about the recent layoffs at Mozilla too, which included lots of people I know. What would convince you to give WebThings a second chance under i…

HTTP2 server push isn't really designed for the kind of two way communication needed in IoT use cases, it's mainly designed for web servers pushing CSS files down to a web browser …

> You can't change tabs unless you scroll all the way to the top, otherwise the address bar is hidden. This is very common feedback and I assure you it hasn't fallen on deaf ears. …

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I recommend the dev-webapi mailing list. It is full of Magic Justins waiting to cast new magic spells for you. https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapi