What Is Project Fugu — Google’s Initiative To Unlock All Native Device Features For The Web
The web is a great platform. It’s an open-ecosystem that anyone can use and build on. Sometimes, however, it is not possible to build exactly what you want due to missing capabilities.
Think about a messaging application that should use the contact list on your smartphone to select friends to chat with. In today’s web, you can’t build an app like this because you don’t have access to native features like contact lists.
Google calls this the app gap.
It describes the gap between what’s possible on the web and what’s possible on native. And this is exactly where Google’s new initiative Project Fugu steps into: It tries to bridge the gap.
What Is Project Fugu?
It is a project also known as the Web Capabilities Project which was initiated by Google, Microsoft, and Intel. Their ambition is striking:
We believe web apps should be able to do anything native apps can.
However, while exposing native capabilities to the web, all core tenets of the web like user security, trust, and privacy should be maintained.
By the way, with this resolution in mind, the name Fugu originated. Fugu is a pufferfish and a…
