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Discussion on: Are there any new or upcoming browser APIs you are keeping an eye on?

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Josh Pullen

Portals have caught my eye as an interesting restructuring of the internet:

It seems like we're moving away from an internet which is organized by domain and more toward one which is organized by topic. This is, of course, ideal for Google, who has been leading the effort, which will probably make it pretty controversial.

Personally, I think this change in organization makes sense. But I want to know: What do you think of it?

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, exciting. But also concerning if it becomes a Chrome-only thing. What’s the latest on outlook for other browsers?

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Meghan (she/her)

Yet another feature that should've been developed as an importable library and not native to a browser.

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Phil Nash

I actually think that Portals couldn't be developed as a library. Otherwise Google would have done to use with AMP articles in the search carousel. Promoting an iframe to be the top level content in a smooth manner is not something you can just do with JavaScript, which is why they are adding this to the standard.

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Meghan (she/her)

I see it now, after reading web.dev/hands-on-portals/ and hope this can come to other engines soon :D

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Josh Pullen

Not good, as far as I can discern. Chrome's incredibly fast pace and willingness to change the standards definitely echos the IE days, which is scary.

Even though each feature on its own seems like mostly a good idea, if other browsers fall behind we could be in some trouble down the road.

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lepinekong

interesting, I was looking for something like that, thanks.

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Norman

I'm very concerned about this feature. It's very clearly something that helps ad-tech by allowing communication between the host and the embedded pages.

Of course it also allows for a lot of great features by enabling interactive embedded content. But I'm very careful with this and I'm pretty sure looking for a plugin that protects me from all the new possible advertising.