Lesser known things browsers can do in 2020

Did you know you can make a device vibrate via a webpage? Neither did we until we popped open Luigi De Rosa’s super cool repo that collects many of the lesser known things browsers can do in 2020.

On this episode we hang out on his list and discuss which APIs were surprises to us, which we think are the most useful, which we wish would die in a fire (sorta), and what you might get if you mash up a few of these APIs.

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Featuring

• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
• Divya Sasidharan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Notes and Links

• Tweet at @luruke and thank him for this repo
• This is the repo, btw
• Nick Nisi wants you to try the Web Coffee API
• We all think the Web Share API is neat
• Read about the SMS Receiver API
• More on the Web Payments API
• Should we do an episode on A-Frame?

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