Good news, everybody! Matt Giuca on the Chrome team has been working on a simple API called Web Share that allows websites to invoke the native sharing capabilities of the host platform.

I recently built a Progressive Web App that takes a screencast from your Android device and then wraps the video in a device frame, like so:

I also managed to sort out building ffmpeg.js so that with relative ease, create…

The other week I talked about Face Detection via the Shape API that is in the Canary channel in Chrome. Now barcode detection is in Chrome Canary too (Miguel is my hero ;)

I am an ardent believer in The Headless Web, that is the interaction points that your users will have with the web will not be in the traditional browser but deeply integrated on the users device via things like notifications and cards, in webviews and services, and on new types of devices and in ways…

I was at the party of the Chrome Dev Summit and Miguel Casa-Sanchez on the Chrome team came up to me and said “Hey Paul, I have a demo for you”. Once I saw it, I had to get it into my talk.

About 5 months ago I documented my Service Worker caching strategy and it was noted that it wouldn’t work in Firefox because of my use of waitUntil. It was also noted that, well, my Service Worker didn’t actually work. It worked for me or…