The open web platform, the ideal companion for building a successful OS ecosystem

François Daoust, W3C Entertainment Champion and Media Specialist, has been invited by Huawei (a partner of the 2025 OpenHarmony Developer Conference) to present "The open web platform, the ideal companion for building a successful OS ecosystem" at the Web & W3C Track.

In his presentation, François will address: "Beyond the need to create a feature-rich operating system (OS), there is a chicken and egg issue with the adoption of a new OS: end users tend to favor platforms that come with a large ecosystem of applications, while application developers favor platforms with a large user audience (all the more so if they need to learn new development paradigms and deployment workflows). 

The open web platform provides an ideal, powerful, and royalty-free layer on top of an OS to support millions of applications at once and open the door to as many web developers. Adding a web layer to a new OS is a significant endeavour though as the web has grown in the past 35 years from a platform tailored to the rendering of text and the creation of user interfaces to a full-fledged computing platform, but it now provides more direct opportunities to hook into the OS and hardware, with technologies such as WebRTC, WebNN, WebAssembly, and WebGPU."