Jeff Posnick
Web DevRel at Google
URLPattern brings routing to the web platform
An approach to standardizing common pattern matching use cases.
Compute Pressure API
Compute Pressure offers high-level states that represent the pressure on the system. It allows the implementation to use the right underlying hardware metrics to ensure that users can take advantage of all the processing power available to them as long as the system is not under unmanageable stress.
Using WebTransport
WebTransport is an API offering low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn more about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
Indexing your offline-capable pages with the Content Indexing API
Your PWA might cache articles and media files, but how will your users know that your pages work while offline? The Content Indexing API is one answer to this question. Once the index is populated with content from your PWA, as well as any other installed PWAs, it will show up in dedicated areas of supported browsers.
Richer offline experiences with the Periodic Background Sync API
Periodic Background Sync enables web applications to periodically synchronize data in the background, bringing web apps closer to the behavior of an iOS/Android/desktop app.
Fresher service workers, by default
HTTP requests that check for updates to the service worker script will no longer be fulfilled by the HTTP cache by default, and imported scripts can trigger the service worker update flow.
Tweaks to cache.addAll() and importScripts() coming in Chrome 71
Some small changes are coming to cache.addAll() and importScripts and in Chrome 71.
Beyond SPAs - alternative architectures for your PWA
Building a Progressive Web App doesn't mean building a single page app! Read about alternative architectures for content-focused PWAs, to help you make the right decision for your use case.
Estimating Available Storage Space
navigator.storage.estimate() gives you insight into your web app's storage constraints.
Once upon an event listener
addEventListener now supports a once option, making it easier to define events that clean up after themselves.
auxclick is coming to Chrome 55
A new auxclick event will be fired for non-primary mouse button clicks.
Cross-origin Service Workers - Experimenting with Foreign Fetch
Third-party services can start deploying their own network request handlers.
CacheQueryOptions Arrive in Chrome 54
The full set of CacheQueryOptions are supported, making it easier to find the cached responses you're looking for.
Offline google analytics made easy
The sw-offline-google-analytics library gives you everything you need.
Stream Your Way to Immediate Responses
Start processing your service worker responses ASAP, thanks to ReadableStreams.
What’s new with KeyboardEvents? Keys and codes!
Two new attributes bring consistent keyboard event handling to the web.
Device Orientation Changes Are Coming to Chrome 50
DeviceOrientationEvent uses relative degrees, and there's a new DeviceOrientationAbsoluteEvent.
Prioritizing Your Resources with link rel='preload'
Chrome 50 adds support for rel='preload', and deprecates rel='subresource'.
HTMLMediaElement.play() returns a promise
Say goodbye to automatic playback uncertainty! play() now returns a Promise.
High resolution timestamps for events
Find out when events occur with microsecond precision, thanks to DOMHighResTimeStamp.
Collecting and iterating, the ES6 way
Maps, Sets, and for...of iteration are ES6 features that can change the way you work with collections of data.
Easier ArrayBuffer to String conversion with the Encoding API
The native Encoding API offers a straightforward way to convert between raw binary data and JavaScript strings.