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[David Barth <david.barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

This is a quick status update for the WebApps Team. Development has been 
going well, and we're now testing and preparing to release our various 
components in Trusty.

HTML5 SDK

* Reviewed HTML5 project template

* We have 3 native APIs exposed in Javascript

* Online Accounts, Alarm and the Content Hub are the first APIs soon to 
be available for testing

* the prototyping work clarified the need to have a manual override to 
expose only the important parts of the bindings; this will help 
guarantee some API stability, even if the low-level bindings still evolve

* Work on the upcoming Cordova 3.4 release for next week; this is to 
land his recent support for cross-compiling cordova apps with click chroot

* Continued testing and documenting a sample HTML5 application in 
preparation for the App Showdown next month

Webapps Stack

* Stack update available for testing in the ppa:ubuntu-unity

* This contains all of the changes to drop old features and keep the 
browser extensions logic down to a minimum

* The webapp container is now available as a separate executable from 
webbrowser-app

* Some preliminary testing with Oxide and the webapp-container on the 
Desktop; sites support was encouraging, but we're missing Flash & HTML5 
support with the current build

* The webapp container can also now use Online Accounts to authenticate 
(branch being reviewed)

Click webapps

* New test webapps for the next conference; being tested internally

* Prepare to update webapps-core in conjonction with the rest of the 
webapps stack


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David Barth
Engineering Manager, Product Strategy