Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime

This Talk introduces real demos using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to showcase new or underutilized browser APIs, with ship scores provided for each API. The dialogue element allows for the creation of modals with minimal JavaScript and is supported by 96% of browsers. The web animations API is a simple and well-supported solution for creating animations, while the view transitions API offers easy animation workarounds without CSS. The scroll snap API allows for swipers without JavaScript, providing a smooth scrolling experience.

I'll be talking about standardizing signals in TC39. Immediate mode wipes out the whole screen and writes a new one, while retained mode changes only what is necessary. Signals represent a cell of data that can change over time. The correct solution is to topologically sort dependencies and evaluate them in a coherent order. Standard signals allow for code sharing across frameworks and the creation of reusable infrastructure. The signal API is designed to be wrapped by different frameworks. Standards can achieve more portability and reduce the need to lock into specific ecosystems. The API includes a watcher, a set of signals being observed, with a synchronous callback made when the first member becomes potentially dirty. The speaker discusses how signals relate to state management libraries in React and mentions the potential for signals to become a web standard in the future.

Welcome to the future features of JavaScript, including proposals for array operations, throw expressions, records and TPUs, pipeline operators, and more. The talk covers the introduction of type assertions for imported files, non-mutating array operations, and the simplification of error handling. It also explores the concept of immutability with records and TPUs, and the use of the pipeline operator to simplify code. Other proposals include Map.implace, IteratorHelper, slice notation, type annotations, Array UNIQBY, number ranges, and the Function 1 proposal.

This Talk explores the challenges and solutions in video encoding with web codecs. It discusses drawing and recording video on the web, capturing and encoding video frames, and introduces the WebCodecs API. The Talk also covers configuring the video encoder, understanding codecs and containers, and the video encoding process with muxing using ffmpeg. The speaker shares their experience in building a video editing tool on the browser and showcases Slantit, a tool for making product videos.

Today's Talk introduces the webHID API, which allows developers to control real devices from the browser via USB. The HID interface, including keyboards, mice, and gamepads, is explored. The Talk covers device enumeration, input reports, feature reports, and output reports. The use of HID in the browser, especially in Chrome, is highlighted. Various demos showcase working with different devices, including a DualShock controller, microphone, gamepad, and Stream Deck drum pad. The Talk concludes with recommendations and resources for further exploration.

The Talk discusses browser automation using the Worker's Browser Rendering API, which allows tasks like navigating websites, taking screenshots, and creating PDFs. Cloudflare integrated Puppeteer with their workers to automate browser tasks, and their browser rendering API combines remote browser isolation with Puppeteer. Use cases for the API include taking screenshots, generating PDFs, automating web applications, and gathering performance metrics. The Talk also covers extending sessions and performance metrics using Durable Objects. Thank you for attending!