Project Fugu 🐡

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Thomas Steiner (Web Developer Advocate at Google) joins Amal & Nick to talk about Project Fugu – an effort to close gaps in the web’s capabilities enabling new classes of applications to run on the web.

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Featuring:

• Thomas Steiner – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Web Capabilities (Project Fugu :blowfish:)
• New capabilities status - Chrome Developers
• Fugu API Tracker
• Web Incubator Community Group (WICG)
• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Getting started with Chrome’s origin trials - Chrome Developers
• Chrome Origin Trials
• Firefox Origin Trials
• Fugu API Tracker
• Fugu App Showcase

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Opener
(00:39) - Sponsor: Square
(01:33) - It's party time, y'all!
(02:23) - Welcoming Tom to the show
(05:12) - Intro to Project Fugu
(08:54) - Why was Fugu created?
(11:54) - The web vs app stores
(15:25) - What happened to PWAs?
(21:42) - Sponsor: Vercel
(23:29) - Photoshop on the web
(28:30) - The standards adoption process
(31:26) - APIs that enable Photoshop on the web
(35:05) - Explaining origin trials
(37:40) - nicksbelovedtypescript.org
(39:02) - Back to the file system API(s)
(42:42) - Sponsor: Lolo Code
(43:45) - Sponsor: Sentry
(44:37) - Fugu API tracker & showcase
(46:22) - The Clipper API
(51:55) - A quick tangent on file handling
(54:18) - Wrapping up
(55:18) - Outro