Proposal to add Project Fugu APIs

[tomayac]

Hi @NOtherDev 👋,

Your site whatwebcando.today has become a primary destination for showing off, well, what the web can do today. Congratulations 🎉!

In Project Fugu, we work on new browser capabilities that push the web platform forward.

May I propose whatwebcando.today to list them? Currently missing are:

• Shape Detection (for the time being, only barcode detection).
• Badging
• Content Indexing
• Native File System
• Notification Triggers
• Web Serial
• Web OTP
• Async Clipboard (the image part)
• Getting installed related apps
• Periodic Background Sync
• Web Share (including file share)
• Web Share Target (including receiving files)

Your site already does list (thanks!):

• Wake Lock
• Web NFC

Thanks for your consideration!

Cheers, Tom from the 🐡 Project Fugu team

[NOtherDev]

Thanks Thomas. I always had a bit different way of structuring the content. Instead of by API, I try to list it by high-level feature, so some of these new APIs for me would rather land within some existing features.

Actually, in some cases they are already there:

• Web OTP is described in SMS
• Web Share & Web Share Target are described in Inter-App Communication

The rest clearly is on my roadmap, although it's always hard to find enough time 🙂 I'm open for cooperation in any form, though. Maybe you could contribute with some demos, for example?

[tomayac]

I always had a bit different way of structuring the content. Instead of by API, I try to list it by high-level feature, so some of these new APIs for me would rather land within some existing features.

Fully understand, I wasn't proposing you change this :-)

Web OTP is described in SMS

The new Web OTP API actually wants to decouple the transport (currently SMS, but in the future, I don't know, WhatsApp or Signal or anything really) from the OTP retrieval. The current code uses await navigator.credentials.get({otp: {transport: ["sms"]}});.

Web Share & Web Share Target are described in Inter-App Communication

Oh, I didn't see this, I scanned the homepage for "share". Maybe consider adding "share" to the section title?

Maybe you could contribute with some demos, for example?

I have provided links to all APIs, there always is a demo. Does this help already?

[NOtherDev]

Status update & plans for the items:

• [x] Shape Detection -> new feature: Shape Detection
• [x] Badging -> probably will go to Home Screen Installation
• [x] Content Indexing -> described in Offline Mode
• [x] Native File System -> update to File Access
• [x] Notification Triggers -> added to Task Scheduling
• [x] Web Serial -> new feature: Serial
• [x] Web OTP -> will go to Credentials?
• [x] Async Clipboard (the image part) -> update to Clipboard
• ~Getting installed related apps~ -> not sure if this fits in scope of showcasing what the web can do in contrast to native
• [x] Periodic Background Sync -> added to Task Scheduling
• [x] Web Share -> already in Inter-App Sharing (note the name change)
• [x] Web Share Target -> as above

[tomayac]

Thanks for sharing the detailed plan! Sounds great to me!

[NOtherDev]

Completed. Thanks @tomayac for providing me a motivation!

[tomayac]

Brilliant, thanks so much for working on this. I have mentioned this yesterday in the Project Fugu prioritization meeting. Here's the agenda item: