Project Fugu 🐡

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

Notes and Links

• 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

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