Capabilities
Learn about the cross-company effort around enabling the most amazing apps on the web.
What is Project Fugu?
Project Fugu is an effort to close gaps in the web's capabilities enabling new classes of applications to run on the web.
Why is Project Fugu important?
Watch to learn how we aim to close the capability gap between the web and native, designed in a way that respect users.
Status updates
Learn about what new, exciting capabilities we're working on.
Fugu Showcase
Check out a collection of apps that make use of APIs conceived with Project Fugu.
Photoshop's journey to the web
The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. By using various new web technologies, Adobe has brought a public beta of Photoshop to the web.
Powerful APIs
Read up on some of the most powerful APIs that enable new use cases not possible before.
File System Access API
Allow web apps to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the user's device.
Badging for app icons
The App Badging API allows installed web apps to set an application-wide badge on the app icon.
Web custom formats for the Async Clipboard API
Let websites read and write arbitrary unsanitized payloads using a standard format applications can opt in to if they wish to support such payloads.
Advanced typography with local fonts
Learn how the Local Font Access API allows you to access the user's locally installed fonts and obtain low-level details about them.
Manage several displays with the Multi-Screen Window Placement API
Get information about connected displays and position windows relative to those displays.
Use the Web Share API to integrate with the OS sharing UI
Web apps can use the same system-provided share capabilities as platform-specific apps.
Hardware APIs
Learn about the hardware APIs we work on in the context of Project Fugu that allow you to access physical devices from the web.
Access hardware devices on the web
Pick the appropriate API to communicate with a hardware device of your choice.
Connect to uncommon HID devices
The WebHID API allows websites to access alternative auxiliary keyboards and exotic gamepads.
Communicate with Bluetooth devices over JavaScript
The Web Bluetooth API allows websites to communicate with Bluetooth devices.
Read from and write to a serial port
The Web Serial API allows websites to communicate with serial devices.
Access USB Devices on the Web
The WebUSB API makes USB safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.
Building a device for WebUSB
Build a device to take full advantage of the WebUSB API.
Interact with NFC devices on Chrome for Android
Reading and writing to NFC tags is now possible.
Play the Chrome dino game with your gamepad
Learn how to use the Gamepad API to push your web games to the next level.
Watch to learn
How leading developers build innovative web experiences
Discover how leading developers including Kapwing, Zoom, YouTube, and Adobe have built innovative user experiences with the latest web capabilities.
Bringing Adobe's Creative Cloud to the web
Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ apps for photography, video, design, web, UX, social media, and more. Learn about some of the steps the Adobe and the Chrome teams took in order to bring Adobe's Creative Cloud to the Web, starting with Photoshop and Illustrator.
SVGcode: Convert raster images to SVG
SVGcode is a Progressive Web App that lets you convert raster images like JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, etc. to vector graphics in SVG format. It uses the File System Access API, the Async Clipboard API, and the File Handling API, and also makes use of Window Controls Overlay customization.
Web Platform APIs
Documentation for Web Platform APIs. Some of them are currently in an experimental status in Chrome. For example, origin and developer trials, or features only found in Canary. The current status of each API is detailed in the documentation.
Request new capabilities
If you have an idea for a new web capability, let us know! We're always looking for new ideas to improve the web platform.