Sherry Day

Posted on Jun 2, 2022

What are the most underrated browser features and APIs?

#webdev #javascript #html #discuss

Please share!

Latest comments (40)

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 5 '22

I wrote a post, on project that I currently working on.

It is using Chrome's APIs underneath.

Post -> Talk to people who are on the same site 🌎 | Chrome Extension

Danny Engelman • Jun 5 '22 • Edited

SSE - Server Sent Events, and the EventSource API

Ron Jonk • Jun 5 '22

Broadcastchannel is more powerfull then window.postmessage api

Imagineee • Jun 4 '22

I mean just read the whole web API list, and I guarantee you will find something you never knew existed.

MDN Web API

wetndusty • Jun 4 '22

XSLT transformation - good standardized way dynamically move logic from server side to client side

Danny Engelman • Jun 5 '22

+1
May Microsoft SharePoint live forever!

Paul Fox • Jun 8 '22

And Ektron! srsly why dd we send so many angle brackets over the phone lines back then?

Stephanie Handsteiner • Jun 4 '22

In regards to upcoming APIs, as in not yet fully supported, the Barcode Detection API is insane. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Ben Read • Jun 3 '22

Love that you used the Mosaic logo for this. Brings back memories.

codingjlu • Jun 3 '22

I'd think that Web Components should be super popular right now, but right now only 5% to 8% of websites use it. That's slightly sad, I think. It's an amazing feature that should be emphasized, built right into the browser.

Danny Engelman • Jun 5 '22 • Edited

There are Browser Vendor and Userland Web Components.

The metrics do not count input, video and many other tags. Those are all built, by browser vendors, with Web Component technology. If you open YouTube, your are using Web Components.

codingjlu • Jun 6 '22

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Using Web Component technology doesn't mean you're using web components, and I'm certain most people wouldn't classify input and video tags as web components, albeit even if they're built with its technologies. The Web Components I'm emphasizing here isn't the technology or whatever, but rather the API as we all know it. Nice looking custom markup tags and a controller class with customElements.define magic. Also, in this post we're talking about underrated browser features as thought by web developers, not by random people that visit Youtube that's built on Polymer or whatever.

jzombie • Jun 3 '22

I love the fact that you can extend (or even override) some native browser APIs in order to do things such as spy on third party SDKs when they are opening WebSocket / Worker threads: reshell.org/native-spy-agent