🐡 New in Chrome 124: System Media Controls per PWA, Universal Install and more 🐡

[Ajay Rahatekar]

Fugu & PWA Update for Chrome 124

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Welcome to the latest edition of the regular Fugu + PWA update. Here, you'll find all the latest news about our work on the Fugu APIs, plus a sampling of recent work with partners.

As always, our project tracker is available at fugu-tracker.web.app/ .

There was no newsletter for M123, since the milestone did not include any new Fugu features.

M124

Features Releasing to Stable

System Media Controls per PWA

sta...@microsoft.com

Bug

This feature introduces support for System Media Controls to be instanced for each dPWA that’s playing audio.

The feature will initially be launched on Windows followed by MacOS. This feature is owned by the Microsoft team and Google is helping with approvals for shipping in Chrome.

Universal Install

diby...@chromium.org, dmu...@chromium.org, fin...@chromium.org, eir...@chromium.org, hart...@chromium.org

Bug (Desktop), Bug (Android)

Make any page installable, even those not meeting the current PWA installability and promotability criteria.

Web MIDI Permissions Prompt

mjwi...@chromium.org, sinaf...@chromium.org

Bug      chromestatus

This feature gates the Web MIDI API access behind a permissions prompt. Today, the use of SysEx messages with the Web MIDI API requires an explicit user permission. With this implementation, even access to the Web MIDI API without SysEx support will require a user permission.

Please reach out with any questions, comments or suggestions.

Ajay Rahatekar and the Fugu team.