Google is creating a number of APIs designed to boost the online platform, together with APIs for mechanically launching internet apps and opening information. These APIs ought to finally discover help in all main browsers.
A declarative hyperlink capturing API, due shortly, will allow an put in internet app to launch mechanically when a person clicks on an acceptable hyperlink. The API might stop a number of situations of the identical app from opening, so customers wouldn’t have to take care of maybe 10 situations of the identical internet app, stated Ben Galbraith, of Google’s Chrome crew, throughout a May 18 presentation on the net platform.
Other new internet platform APIs within the works at Google embody:
- A file dealing with API to permit internet apps to be registered as file kind handlers, enabling customers to open information straight in an internet app from OS file browsers. An experimental launch of this API is deliberate for later this 12 months.
- A prerendering API, additionally deliberate for later in 2021, for builders to experiment with prerendering on same-site preloading. Prerendering is a method for loading all of a webpage’s sources, together with rendering the DOM, earlier than the person clicks on the web page’s hyperlink, for fast show. Prerendering is tough to get proper, with potential unintended effects together with leaking some person data if completed throughout websites, Galbraith stated. But if completed correctly, prerendering supplies a robust, immediate click-through expertise for the person. New approaches to prerendering are being developed which might be non-public and protected.
- Document transition APIs, quickly to be accessible as Chrome origin trial experiments, will help graphical transitions between parts, to allow a person to understand a seamless expertise when shifting between states of an internet app.
- A WebGPU API to enhance graphics efficiency on the net. Google is working with the graphics and internet communities on WebGPU, which remains to be experimental.
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