[Developer Needs Dashboard] Powerful Web apps features

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[Developer Needs Dashboard] Powerful Web apps features #791

Open tomayac opened 2 months ago

tomayac commented 2 months ago

I was hoping to see things that make building powerful Web apps possible. To name a few:

File System Access
Async Clipboard
File Handling
Window Controls Overlay

There's quite a gap between browsers if you compare How Fugu Is My Browser? scores.

Another angle worth exploring could be the hardware access APIs:

WebUSB
Web HID
Web Serial
Web NFC
Web Bluetooth
Web MIDI

diekus commented 2 months ago

Hola Thomas! Can you elaborate a bit more here? I am not sure I understand the context.

tomayac commented 2 months ago

I guess the question boils down to: why are the mentioned APIs nowhere on the dashboard? I understand the source is "developer needs" (this probably needs some more context in the blog post and on the dashboard), so I'm wondering if no one was asking for those features.

amandabaker commented 2 months ago

@captainbrosset It looks like you've worked on that page, so do you have more context here?

snianu commented 2 months ago

@sanketj as FYI. I don't see Async Clipboard API on this dashboard. We are actively working on adding more capabilities to this API, and it's a highly requested API from sophisticated sites like Adobe, Office online, Figma etc.

snianu commented 2 months ago

Also @dandclark. Should EditContext API be included on this dashboard?

dandclark commented 2 months ago

Thanks @tomayac and @snianu, lots of good suggestions here. As we iterate on the dashboard (cadence for that TBD) we'll include each of these in the list of features we consider for inclusion.