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cpu-performance
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An API that exposes some information about how powerful the user device is.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•14•4•1•Updated Dec 8, 2025Dec 8, 2025
multicast-in-direct-sockets
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Allows Isolated Web Apps to subscribe to Multicast Groups and receive UDP packages, and allow to set settings like time to live for sending datagrams to multicast addresses
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Other
•1•5•0•2•Updated Dec 8, 2025Dec 8, 2025
security-info-web-request
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An API proposal to extend the `Controlled Frame` `webRequest` API to provide TLS/QUIC certificate information and connection state for a given request.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•2•0•1•Updated Dec 8, 2025Dec 8, 2025
script-src-v2
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•2•1•7•1•Updated Dec 8, 2025Dec 8, 2025
scroll-triggered-animations
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Explainer for Scroll-Triggered Animations
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•1•0•0•Updated Dec 4, 2025Dec 4, 2025
css-fit-text
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•4•0•0•Updated Nov 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025
template
Public template
Use this template for web standards proposals in this org.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•5•17•1•0•Updated Nov 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025
permissions-policy-beforeunload
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Allow `beforeunload` usage to be controlled by a `Permissions-Policy`
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•1•0•1•Updated Nov 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025
async-textdetector
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An explainer for adding asynchronous TextDetector.create() and TextDetector.availability() methods to the Text Detection API. This allows developers to check for language support and avoids janks from synchronous TextDetector creation.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•0•0•1•Updated Nov 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025
webcodecs-manual-scalability
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Proposal to add "manual" scalabilityMode to WebCodecs, enabling per-frame reference handling.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•0•0•1•Updated Nov 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025
verifyTLSServerCertificateForIWA
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new Isolated Web App api to verify server certificates for applications that use direct sockets with TCP/UDP communication.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•2•5•0•1•Updated Nov 24, 2025Nov 24, 2025
private-proof
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Private Proof API
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•3•18•5•1•Updated Nov 12, 2025Nov 12, 2025
partitioned-popins
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Explainer: Partitioned Popins
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•5•7•4•0•Updated Nov 12, 2025Nov 12, 2025
cross-origin-storage
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Explainer for the Cross-Origin Storage (COS) API
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Apache License 2.0
•1•19•7•0•Updated Nov 7, 2025Nov 7, 2025
prtoken-reference
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C++
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Apache License 2.0
•10•3•0•0•Updated Nov 5, 2025Nov 5, 2025
third-party-cookie-allowlist-header
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This proposal is an early design sketch to describe the problem below and solicit feedback on the proposed solution. It has not been approved to ship in Chrome.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•4•1•0•Updated Nov 4, 2025Nov 4, 2025
fetch-retry
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Allow developers to indicate that a fetch should be retried on network errors, and the policy on retrying.
1•3•0•0•Updated Oct 3, 2025Oct 3, 2025
approximate-geolocation
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Proposal for approximate location in Geolocation API
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•3•4•1•Updated Sep 29, 2025Sep 29, 2025
user-dictionary-leaks
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Preventing User Dictionary Leaks via ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error CSS Pseudo-Elements
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•1•0•0•Updated Sep 8, 2025Sep 8, 2025
HSTS-Tracking-Prevention
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•2•0•1•Updated Sep 1, 2025Sep 1, 2025
progress-notification
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An API proposal for indicating to the user agent of an important ongoing task
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•3•8•3•2•Updated Aug 25, 2025Aug 25, 2025
script-tools
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•4•16•2•2•Updated Aug 19, 2025Aug 19, 2025
css-reading-flow
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Explainer for new CSS property reading-order-items
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•0•0•1•Updated Aug 19, 2025Aug 19, 2025
clipboard-contents-id
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•3•0•1•Updated Aug 18, 2025Aug 18, 2025
frame-ancestor-headers
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Frame Ancestor Headers provide additional information about the relationship between a request's destination and its ancestor frames.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•1•0•1•Updated Aug 18, 2025Aug 18, 2025
promisify-scroll
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Make Element/Window scroll methods return Promises
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•1•1•1•Updated Aug 18, 2025Aug 18, 2025
safe-text-input
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A proposal for safer manual text and autofill input by means of policy-controlled features.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•1•0•1•Updated Aug 18, 2025Aug 18, 2025
canvas-noise-on-readbacks
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•6•0•1•Updated Aug 18, 2025Aug 18, 2025
selective-permissions-intervention
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An explainer for a new web platform intervention designed to better align API permissions with user intent by preventing ad scripts from accessing certain privacy-sensitive APIs
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•1•5•0•1•Updated Aug 18, 2025Aug 18, 2025
csp-sandbox-allow-same-site-none-cookies
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A proposal to create a new CSP Sandbox Value that allows websites to opt-in to allow first-party SameSite=None cookies to be sent in sandboxed contexts.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
•0•5•1•1•Updated Aug 18, 2025Aug 18, 2025