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    • css-shrink-to-fit

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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•1•4•1•Updated Jul 23, 2026Jul 23, 2026

    • semantic-embedder-api

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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •2•11•9•3•Updated Jul 22, 2026Jul 22, 2026

    • chromeos-iwa-apis

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      Explainers and specs of APIs for Isolated Web Apps (IWAs) in ChromeOS.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•0•0•2•Updated Jul 22, 2026Jul 22, 2026

    • scroll-axis-lock

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      Explainer for CSS property: scroll-axis-lock
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•0•0•1•Updated Jul 22, 2026Jul 22, 2026

    • single-axis-scroll-containers

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      Single-Axis Scroll Containers explainer
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•0•0•1•Updated Jul 21, 2026Jul 21, 2026

    • declarative-performance-observer

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      Browser-resident telemetry system designed to measure the end-to-end reliability of user journeys from navigation initiation to page termination.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•6•12•1•Updated Jul 21, 2026Jul 21, 2026

    • dbsc-js-api

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      A JavaScript API for interacting with Device Bound Session Credentials
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•1•0•0•Updated Jul 20, 2026Jul 20, 2026

    • workers-permissions-policy

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      Permissions Policy for Workers
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•1•1•0•Updated Jul 17, 2026Jul 17, 2026

    • background-work-api

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      Enables web applications to request a temporary exemption from background throttling to complete critical tasks like large uploads or state synchronization.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•3•1•1•Updated Jul 14, 2026Jul 14, 2026

    • prefetch-activation-beacon

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      Reliable prefetch & prerender acitvation reporting regardless of the cache status.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•3•0•1•Updated Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026

    • sub-apps

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      This is API to create Sub app, which is basically the same Web App (has access to all the same content/permissions,etc), but has separate icon in the launcher a…
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      •1•1•0•0•Updated Jun 25, 2026Jun 25, 2026

    • classifier-api

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      Explainer for the Classifier API: A proposal for a high-performance, on-device browser API to classify text.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •2•5•2•1•Updated Jun 24, 2026Jun 24, 2026

    • static-storage-quota

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      Proposal for a quota API modification to prevent an Incognito detection vector.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•0•0•1•Updated Jun 23, 2026Jun 23, 2026

    • web-scanning

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      Web Scanning API
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•1•1•1•Updated Jun 23, 2026Jun 23, 2026

    • private-verification-tokens

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      Private Verification Tokens (PVT) is a low-entropy mechanism for users to transfer the trust they have established in regular browsing into private browsing mod…
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•8•2•1•Updated Jun 23, 2026Jun 23, 2026

    • service-worker-synthetic-response

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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•0•0•1•Updated Jun 23, 2026Jun 23, 2026

    • additional-windowing-controls

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      Repository hosting the feature explainer
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •3•13•3•1•Updated Jun 22, 2026Jun 22, 2026

    • template

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      Use this template for web standards proposals in this org.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •9•20•1•1•Updated Jun 22, 2026Jun 22, 2026

    • 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 fo…
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•1•0•1•Updated Jun 22, 2026Jun 22, 2026

    • css-fit-text

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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•12•0•1•Updated Jun 22, 2026Jun 22, 2026

    • 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 priva…
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•8•0•1•Updated Jun 22, 2026Jun 22, 2026

    • inline-script-cache-hint

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      cache-hint attribute on <script> tag for inline script caching
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•2•0•1•Updated Jun 19, 2026Jun 19, 2026

    • native-lottie-support

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      A proposal for surfacing native Lottie animation support in the browser.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•4•0•1•Updated Jun 19, 2026Jun 19, 2026

    • approximate-geolocation

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      Proposal for approximate location in Geolocation API
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      •1•5•6•1•Updated Jun 18, 2026Jun 18, 2026

    • promisify-scroll

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      Make Element/Window scroll methods return Promises
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•5•1•1•Updated Mar 30, 2026Mar 30, 2026

    • 3pcd-grace-period-opt-out

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      Hosts the explainer for the privacy feature "Third-party Cookie Grace Period Opt-Out"
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •2•6•0•1•Updated Jan 22, 2026Jan 22, 2026

    • related-website-partition-api

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      The Related Website Partition API is a novel way for 3P sites embedded in multiple domains in the same RWS
      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •6•16•2•0•Updated Jan 16, 2026Jan 16, 2026

    • 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 Jan 15, 2026Jan 15, 2026

    • prtoken-reference

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      Apache License 2.0
      •15•3•0•0•Updated Jan 6, 2026Jan 6, 2026

    • script-src-v2

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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •3•3•7•2•Updated Dec 15, 2025Dec 15, 2025
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