Web Platform

Learn how Chrome uses the Canary, Dev, Beta, and Stable release channels to test new features, and roll out updates.

Enable additional debugging tools or try out new or experimental features in Chrome.

A mechanism for Chrome to test new browser features

Test a new or experimental web platform feature. Give feedback to the web standards community on the feature's usability, practicality, and effectiveness, before the feature is made available to all users.

Learn how providers of embedded content can test new or experimental web platform features across multiple sites.

Address common problems with trial tokens in meta tags, headers, and scripts. You'll also learn about debugging support in Chrome DevTools.

Display arbitrary HTML content in an always-on-top window.

Conditionally focus a tab or window when screen sharing on the web.

Guide the user away from oversharing thanks to privacy-preserving screen sharing controls on the web.

The web platform now ships with Capture Handle, a mechanism that allows a capturing web app to ergonomically and confidently identify the captured web app, if the captured web app has opted-in.

The Handwriting Recognition API allows web applications to use advanced handwriting recognition services to recognize text from handwritten input in real time.

Learn about the Navigation API, a new API which adds improved functionality to build single-page applications.

The web platform now ships with Region Capture, a performant and robust way for cropping a video track.

Manage yourself the browser deals with content occlusion when a touch device's virtual keyboard appears.

The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.

Launch handler lets you control how your app is launched, for example, whether it uses an existing or a new window and whether the chosen window is navigated to the launch URL.

Report information on whether frames present in the document were blocked from using the back/forward cache on navigation.

The Chrome team is working on better measuring so-called soft navigations used by Single Page Applications and a new API is now available behind a flag to allow sites to experiment with this too.

Compute Pressure offers high-level states that represent the pressure on the system. It allows the implementation to use the right underlying hardware metrics to ensure that users can take advantage of all the processing power available to them as long as the system is not under unmanageable stress.

Declarative Link Capturing is a proposal for a web app manifest property called "capture_links" that lets developers determine declaratively what should happen when the browser is asked to navigate to a URL that is within the application's navigation scope, from a context outside of the navigation scope.

The Storage Foundation API proposed a storage API that resembles a basic file system, with direct access to stored data through buffers and offsets.

The Notification Triggers API allows developers to schedule local notifications that don't require a network connection, which makes them ideal for use cases like calendar apps.

Web Bundles enable you to share websites as a single file over Bluetooth and run them offline in your origin's context.