Alex Russell

Alex is Partner Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team and Blink API OWNER. Before joining Edge in 2021, he worked on Chrome’s Web Platform team for a dozen years where he helped design many new features. He served as overall Tech Lead for Chromium’s Project Fugu, lead Chrome’s Standards work, and acted as a platform strategist for the web. He also served as a member of ECMA TC39 for more than a decade and was elected to three terms on the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group. His technical projects have included Fugu, Progressive Web Apps, Service Workers, and Web Components, along with ES6 features like Classes and Promises. Previously he helped build Google Chrome Frame and led the Dojo Toolkit project. Alex plays for Team Web.

Microsoft, USAalexrussell infrequently.org

Project Fugu: Bringing Hardware Capabilities to the Web Safely

JSNation 2025

Upcoming

Project Fugu: Bringing Hardware Capabilities to the Web Safely

Since 2018, Project Fugu has been an open, ongoing collaboration inside the Chromium project to deliver essential device capabilities that ambitious PWAs and web apps need to compete with native. Building on the success of WebUSB's explicit choice model for safely connecting web sites to devices, Project Fugu continues to deliver important features in a secure, privacy respecting way. This talk explores some of the features Project Fugu has delivered to enable apps like Photoshop to come to the web, and how you can get involved in the ongoing collaboration between Google, Microsoft, Intel, and others to get your product's needs addressed in leading browsers.