134: Modern Web APIs
Summary This week Paul Kinlan the lead for Chrome developer relations talks to us about Modern Web APIs including Web Share and Shape Detection! Paul talks us through the origin trials process which allows new APIs such as these to get into developers hands early, allowing platform developers to get all important feedback. We then get stuck into what Web Share is and how it works and chat about the possibilities of the Shape Detection API. This Week in Web News Service Worker has moved into the development phase in WebKit! Axe-core the accessibility testing engine now supports ShadowDOM! FireFox 55 Released last week which includes Windows support for WebVR React Day Berlin which is happening on the 2nd December is now accepting talk proposals Chrome Beta 61 is now available including awesome features such as JS modules, WebShare & WebUSB Safari Technology Preview Release 37 is now available with initial support for sendBeacon among other things Chrome Team has released puppeteer, a modern Node API for controlling headless chrome Resources Introducing the Web Share API Web Share API: Chrome Status Creating a share button web component Shape Detection: Chrome Status Mozilla Web APIs Running an origin trial Signing up for an origin trial Status for new Chrome Web APIs Following with Chrome Dev Group Guests Paul Kinlan (@Paul_Kinlan) Panel Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro) Leon Revill (@revillweb) Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie) Follow The Web Platform podcast on Twitter for regular updates @TheWebPlatform.
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