Ada.is

The blog of Ada Rose Cannon

I work on Safari at Apple and participate in web standards for spatial and immersive technologies at the W3C. I build demos, give talks, and write about the web platform.

Demos & Experiments

A collection of web projects and prototypes.

Conference Talks

Talks I've given on WebXR, web standards, and the web platform.

About Me

More about who I am and what I have worked on.

Writing

Preview image for A Rube Goldberg Machine

An introduction of upcoming web APIs, CSS Grid, Web Animation and Custom Properties. These new APIs when used together can bring a new way to use the web paltform to develop websites without the need for frameworks.

Human Friendly Colours using HSL

24 Aug 2017

(If you are already familiar with HSL jump to the end for some fun tips.)

[Guide] Being fast and light: Using binary data to optimise libraries on the client and the server.

19 Jul 2017

The Web has Native support for parsing and editing Binary data. This can be very efficient for example this is how I sync the state of 170 Virtual Reality users in the same venue without bringing down the network.

[Video] Virtual Reality and the Future of the Web

12 Jul 2017

New Virtual Reality browsers means we need to consider how the web platform is going to need evolve to take advantage of the benefits that Virtual Reality can bring.

[Video] Ada Rose Cannon | WebVR | Browser API Special, CSS Day 2017

14 Jun 2017

VR is here, there are VR web browsers and new APIs to enable VR across a wide range of devices. The WebVR APIs rely on WebGL to render an immersive environment. This interactive talk aims to introduce a way of writing and controlling WebGL scenes with just HTML, accessible to web developers of all skills; no knowledge of 3D rendering required!!