Browser APIs you May Not Know About with Sasha Shynkevich on Web Rush #227

Sasha Shynkevich chats with us about browser APIs that you may have missed, such as vibration, tabs, broadcast channel, MIDI, and more!

Direct link to the episode.

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  episode: 227,
  title: 'Browser APIs you May Not Know Abou',
  topics: [ 
    'API', 'browser', 'development'
  ],
  guest: 'namei'
  hosts: [
    'Craig Shoemaker', 'Dan Wahlin'
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Recording date: March 16, 2023

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Sasha Shynkevich @neesoglasnaja

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• Narwhal

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Resources:

• MDN Web Docs
• Vibration API
• Can I Use
• Polyfills
• Chromium Browsers
• Contact Manager API
• Contact Picker API
• Drag and Drop API
• Intersection Observer API
• Beacon API
• Broadcast Channel API
• Tabs API
• LocalStorage API
• Barcode API
• Presentation API
• Full screen API
• Picture-in-Picture API
• Clipboard API
• Gamepad API
• Sensor API
• Geolocation API
• Bluetooth device API
• MIDI API
• HTML Sanitizer API
• IndexedDB API

Timejumps

• 00:34 Welcome
• 01:41 Guest introduction
• 02:46 Which browser APIs are you working with lately?
• 05:41 How do you know which browser supports which API?
• 08:29 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 09:09 What code do you write to ensure API support?
• 10:38 What is a polyfill?
• 15:03 How do the APIs get used on mobile development?
• 17:23 How would you categorize APIs?
• 22:44 How could someone use broadcast channel API?
• 25:25 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 27:36 Media APIs
• 34:03 Devices API
• 38:36 Data management APIs
• 43:07 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.