Proposed Group: Second Screen Presentation Community Group
The Second Screen Presentation Community Group has been proposed by Dominik Röttsches:
The group\’s goal is to define an API that allows web applications to use secondary screens to display Web content. Phones, tablets, laptops and other devices support ways to attach additional display screens. Common methods include attaching through video ports or HDMI, or wirelessly through Miracast, WiDi, or AirPlay. Screens can also be attached over a network. For many of these techniques the operating system hides how the screen is attached and provides ways for applications to use the screens. Native apps on an operating system can easily use these additional screens without having to know how they are attached to the device. The goal of this CG is to define simple APIs to request displaying an HTML page on the second screen and some means for the launching page on the first screen to communicate with and control the second page, wherever it is rendered. That API should hide the details of the underlying connection technologies and use familiar, common web technologies for messaging. The charter for this CG can be found at: https://github.com/webscreens/presentation-api/wiki/Second-Screen-Community-Group-Charter
You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work.
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I like the idea. I think WebDriver (even it is designed for testing) provides useful APIs for controlling a Web page by remote, which can be used addressed here.