Most websites barely touch what modern browsers can do

Use browser capabilities when they remove friction or unlock workflows users already want. Do not bolt them on as novelty.

Every demo in this hub has a graceful fallback story because support varies by browser, OS, permission state, and secure context.

Modern browsers can bridge into files, hardware-adjacent sensors, native sharing, floating windows, and richer motion with less ceremony than many teams expect.

Animate layout and state changes as one coherent transition instead of a hard redraw.

Strongest in Chromium-based browsers today. Other browsers fall back to the normal DOM update, so the core interaction still works.

Hand off links, text, and sometimes files to the device’s native share sheet.

Common on mobile browsers and increasingly available on desktop. If unavailable, copy-link and mailto fallbacks still cover the core job.

Pop a mini always-on-top window for controls, timers, notes, or monitoring panels.

Experimental and mainly Chromium-based for now. Unsupported browsers should keep the panel inline in the main page.

Render an interactive 3D model in the browser instead of flattening everything into a static image.

WebGL is broadly available in modern browsers when hardware acceleration is enabled. The model-viewer custom element is a progressive enhancement that falls back to its poster image if the model cannot render.

Open, edit, and save user files directly from the browser with native file pickers.

Best in Chromium-based browsers in secure contexts. Other browsers should offer a download fallback rather than direct save-back.

Sample any on-screen color with the system picker and pipe it back into the web app.

Currently available in Chromium-based browsers. Unsupported browsers should expose a normal color input instead.

Keep the display awake during a task without forcing awkward tap-to-prevent-sleep hacks.

Widely available in modern Chromium browsers and some mobile environments. Unsupported browsers simply continue using normal sleep behavior.

Access low-level browser video and audio encoding, decoding, and frame processing primitives without round-tripping every asset through a server.

Best in Chromium-based browsers in secure contexts. Unsupported browsers should fall back to normal media elements, canvas previews, uploaded processing, or download/export workflows.

Use the browser’s modern GPU pipeline for heavier visual computation, rendering, and media effects without installing native software.

Available in modern Chromium-based browsers and expanding across platforms. Unsupported browsers should fall back to Canvas, WebGL, or server-side processing.

Move canvas drawing work away from the main UI thread so previews, thumbnails, and visual processing can stay responsive.

Supported in modern Chromium and Firefox contexts, with varying support across canvas modes and Safari versions. Unsupported browsers should use a normal main-thread canvas fallback.

Run compact compiled modules in the browser for fast local processing, parsers, transforms, compression, and analysis workflows.

Broadly supported in modern browsers. Advanced features such as threads, SIMD, component-model workflows, and streaming compilation still need capability checks and fallbacks.

Render an interactive 3D model in the browser instead of flattening everything into a static image.

WebGL is broadly available in modern browsers when hardware acceleration is enabled. The model-viewer custom element is a progressive enhancement that falls back to its poster image if the model cannot render.

Open, edit, and save user files directly from the browser with native file pickers.

Best in Chromium-based browsers in secure contexts. Other browsers should offer a download fallback rather than direct save-back.

Detect QR codes and barcodes directly in-browser from uploaded or camera-captured images.

Mostly Chromium-based at the moment. Browsers without support should fall back to manual code entry or server-side scanning.

Detect whether the user and screen are active to adapt sync, notifications, and session behavior.

Experimental and permission-gated. Unsupported browsers should default to conservative behavior based on visibility and focus events.