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    • task-interrupt-timing

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      Explainer for the Task Interrupt Timing API: PerformanceObserver entry to detect main-thread jank with configurable thresholds and point-in-time stack trace.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•1•0•1•Updated Nov 12, 2026Nov 12, 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
      •2•3•0•0•Updated Nov 11, 2026Nov 11, 2026

    • decisions-api

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      An explainer exploring fast, type-safe, on-device ML decisions, classification, scoring, and ranking
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •3•30•2•1•Updated Nov 11, 2026Nov 11, 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
      •4•11•5•1•Updated Nov 10, 2026Nov 10, 2026

    • additional-windowing-controls

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      Repository hosting the feature explainer
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      •3•13•3•1•Updated Nov 9, 2026Nov 9, 2026

    • workers-permissions-policy

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      Permissions Policy for Workers
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •2•2•2•0•Updated Nov 9, 2026Nov 9, 2026

    • approximate-geolocation

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      Proposal for approximate location in Geolocation API
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      •1•7•6•1•Updated Nov 4, 2026Nov 4, 2026

    • content-trust-markers

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      A proposal for a web platform API which allows site publishers to annotate what first-party content may not be safe for agents
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      •0•0•0•0•Updated Oct 28, 2026Oct 28, 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 Oct 27, 2026Oct 27, 2026

    • working-vs-idle

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      An API to quantify and debug time spent working instead of idle.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•1•0•1•Updated Oct 12, 2026Oct 12, 2026

    • activitypub-service-content-delivery

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      Explainer for ActivityPub server-to-service content delivery
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      •0•3•0•1•Updated Sep 16, 2026Sep 16, 2026

    • single-axis-scroll-containers

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      Single-Axis Scroll Containers explainer
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      •0•0•0•1•Updated Sep 4, 2026Sep 4, 2026

    • scroll-snap-stop-before

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      Use scroll-snap-stop: before to prevent reaching the snap area on flings
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      •0•1•0•0•Updated Sep 3, 2026Sep 3, 2026

    • scroll-snap-type-pair

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      Use scroll-snap-type: pair to snap to a single element
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      •0•1•0•0•Updated Sep 3, 2026Sep 3, 2026

    • ua-image-replacement

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      Simple API for allowing authors to respond to browser features which edit images in the page
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •0•3•3•1•Updated Sep 2, 2026Sep 2, 2026

    • chromeos-iwa-apis

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      Explainers and specs of APIs for Isolated Web Apps (IWAs) in ChromeOS.
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      •1•1•4•5•Updated Aug 28, 2026Aug 28, 2026

    • css-shrink-to-fit

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      •0•3•3•0•Updated Aug 24, 2026Aug 24, 2026

    • vector-store-api

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      •0•1•1•1•Updated Aug 24, 2026Aug 24, 2026

    • single-axis-scroll-snap

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      Scroll snap for single axis scroll containers
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      •0•0•0•0•Updated Aug 20, 2026Aug 20, 2026

    • expect-no-linked-resources

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      The `expect-no-linked-resources` configuration point in Document Policy allows a document to hint to the user agent to better optimize its loading sequence.
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      •1•1•0•1•Updated Aug 17, 2026Aug 17, 2026

    • semantic-embedder-api

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      •3•22•9•4•Updated Aug 4, 2026Aug 4, 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•2•Updated Aug 4, 2026Aug 4, 2026

    • service-worker-synthetic-response

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      •1•0•0•2•Updated Aug 4, 2026Aug 4, 2026

    • multicast-in-direct-sockets

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      Allows Isolated Web Apps to subscribe to Multicast Groups and receive UDP packages, and allow to set settings like time to live for sending datagrams to multica…
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      •1•8•0•3•Updated Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026

    • limiting-local-fonts-access

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      •0•3•5•2•Updated Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026

    • future-browsing-context-group-dependency-hint

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      A proposal to provide a hint to the browser that a page relies on being in the same browsing context group across navigations.
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      •0•1•0•2•Updated Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026

    • security-info-web-request

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      An API proposal to extend the `Controlled Frame` `webRequest` API to provide TLS/QUIC certificate information and connection state for a given request.
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•3•1•2•Updated Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 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
      •11•20•1•2•Updated Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026

    • script-tools

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      •4•18•2•3•Updated Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026

    • urlpattern-generate

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      Explainer of the new `generate()` method for URLPattern API
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      Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
      •1•5•2•2•Updated Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026
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