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Capabilities

Learn about the cross-company effort around enabling the most amazing apps on the web.
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What is Project Fugu?

Project Fugu is an effort to close gaps in the web's capabilities enabling new classes of applications to run on the web.
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Why is Project Fugu important?

Watch to learn how we aim to close the capability gap between the web and native, designed in a way that respect users.

Status updates

Learn about what new, exciting capabilities we're working on.
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Fugu Showcase

Check out a collection of apps that make use of APIs conceived with Project Fugu.
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Photoshop's journey to the web

The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. By using various new web technologies, Adobe has brought a public beta of Photoshop to the web.
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PWA navigation management

Learn how to manage the browser process that determines whether a link opens in an installed PWA or new browser tab.

PWA as URL handler

Learn how to use the new URL handler API to open your PWA when a specific URL is opened.

File System Access API

Allow web apps to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the user's device.

Badging for app icons

The App Badging API allows installed web apps to set an application-wide badge on the app icon.

Web custom formats for the Async Clipboard API

Let websites read and write arbitrary unsanitized payloads using a standard format applications can opt in to if they wish to support such payloads.

Advanced typography with local fonts

Learn how the Local Font Access API allows you to access the user's locally installed fonts and obtain low-level details about them.

Managing several displays with the Window Management API

Get information about connected displays and position windows relative to those displays.

Use the Web Share API to integrate with the OS sharing UI

Web apps can use the same system-provided share capabilities as platform-specific apps.

Access hardware devices on the web open_in_new

Pick the appropriate API to communicate with a hardware device of your choice.

Connect to uncommon HID devices

The WebHID API allows websites to access alternative auxiliary keyboards and exotic gamepads.

Communicate with Bluetooth devices over JavaScript

The Web Bluetooth API allows websites to communicate with Bluetooth devices.

Read from and write to a serial port

The Web Serial API allows websites to communicate with serial devices.

Access USB Devices on the Web

The WebUSB API makes USB safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.

Building a device for WebUSB

Build a device to take full advantage of the WebUSB API.

Interact with NFC devices on Chrome for Android

Reading and writing to NFC tags is now possible.

Play the Chrome dino game with your gamepad open_in_new

Learn how to use the Gamepad API to push your web games to the next level.

How leading developers build innovative web experiences

Discover how leading developers including Kapwing, Zoom, YouTube, and Adobe have built innovative user experiences with the latest web capabilities.

Bringing Adobe's Creative Cloud to the web

Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ apps for photography, video, design, web, UX, social media, and more. Learn about some of the steps the Adobe and the Chrome teams took in order to bring Adobe's Creative Cloud to the Web, starting with Photoshop and Illustrator.

SVGcode: Convert raster images to SVG

SVGcode is a Progressive Web App that lets you convert raster images like JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, etc. to vector graphics in SVG format. It uses the File System Access API, the Async Clipboard API, and the File Handling API, and also makes use of Window Controls Overlay customization.

Web Platform APIs

Documentation for Web Platform APIs. Some of them are currently in an experimental status in Chrome. For example, origin and developer trials, or features only found in Canary. The current status of each API is detailed in the documentation.

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If you have an idea for a new web capability, let us know! We're always looking for new ideas to improve the web platform.
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