Presenting the modern browser platforms, we are pretty far from your fathers Mosaic.

1. Modern
Browsers
Platform Features and Capabilities
Vikram Rangnekar

2. Modern browser features that allow a web application to behave like a local application?

3. Browser Platforms
Chrome - Blink (Desktop / Android)
Safari - Webkit (Mac / iOS)
Firefox - Gecko (Desktop / Android)
IE - Trident (Desktop)

4. Common Features
HTML5
CSS3 / SVG / WEBGL
Fast JS Engines: V8, Spider Monkey
Storage: Key-Value, Indexed, SQL, Files
WebSockets / WebRTC
Threads: WebWorkers

5. Whats HTML5
New Elements
VIDEO, CANVAS, ARTICLE, ADDRESS
Data URLS
CSS Transforms
CORS, HSTS
App Cache, Geo Location

6. Security
Content Security Policy
Content-Security-Policy: script-src 'self' https://apis.google.com
Sandboxing
<iframe sandbox=”allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms”
src="http://attacker.com/untrusted.html">
</iframe>
Web Crypto API
crypto.getRandomValues(), SHA-512, HMAC, AES

7. Each Tab As A Separate Process

8. Other Cool API
DeviceMotionEvent
DeviceAccleration
WebBluetooth
MozNFC
TCPServerSocket
AnalyserNode : Audio Analysis

9. Javascript Performance
Pro:
Its Fast Trust Me
Chrome JS Engine V8 Used By NodeJS
Con:
Single Threaded

10. Next Gen Browser Languages
Google DART: A class based OOP language
supported by Chrome
Mozilla RUST: A safe concurrent language for
creating client and server programs.

11. Tools
Profilers
Debuggers
Inspectors
JS Console
chrome://chrome-urls/

12. Q & A
Ask away…http://www.chromeexperiments.com/