Google preps new web platform APIs
Google is developing several APIs designed to enhance the web platform, including APIs for automatically launching web apps and opening files. These APIs should eventually find support in all leading browsers.A declarative link capturing API, due shortly, will enable an installed web app to launch automatically when a user clicks on an appropriate link. The API could prevent multiple instances of the same app from opening, so users do not have to deal with perhaps 10 instances of the same web app, said Ben Galbraith, of Google’s Chrome team, during a May 18 presentation on the web platform.[ Also on InfoWorld: How to use the Svelte JavaScript framework ] Other new web platform APIs in the works at Google include:To read this article in full, please click here
Google is developing several APIs designed to enhance the web platform, including APIs for automatically launching web apps and opening files. These APIs should eventually find support in all leading browsers.
A declarative link capturing API, due shortly, will enable an installed web app to launch automatically when a user clicks on an appropriate link. The API could prevent multiple instances of the same app from opening, so users do not have to deal with perhaps 10 instances of the same web app, said Ben Galbraith, of Google’s Chrome team, during a May 18 presentation on the web platform.
Other new web platform APIs in the works at Google include:
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