Detecting if a URL scheme can be handled
Can we detect if a url with a custom URL scheme can be handled? Why yes. Yes we can.
About Me: Paul Kinlan
I lead the Chrome Developer Relations team at Google.
We want people to have the best experience possible on the web without having to install a native app or produce content in a walled garden.
Our team tries to make it easier for developers to build on the web by supporting every Chrome release, creating great content to support developers on web.dev, contributing to MDN, helping to improve browser compatibility, and some of the best developer tools like Lighthouse, Workbox, Squoosh to name just a few.
On Mastodon
Some thoughts about why Mastodon
What is new on the web?
When does an API become available to use on the web?
The off by default web
Some musing on the model of API permissions on the web.
Goodbye HTML5Rocks
Some additional thoughts on the end of HTML5 Rocks
Hiring for Chrome and Web Developer Relations
We're hiring in 2022. Come and join us.
The Wordle Wide Web
An affirmation of the power of the web
Missing the trajectory
It turns out that I miss a lot of signals.
Top web developer pain points in 2021
We survey a part of the ecosystem every quarter. Here are some of our findings.
Sorry Safari team
We shared some incorrect data at Chrome Dev Summit. Here's my apology and what lead to the mistake.
Chrome 100 - Does it break user agent checking?
Does the 100 in the User Agent break anything?
Browser Compat Data - developer gold
MDN created Browser Compat Data and it's a goldmine. We should be using it a lot more
Building an NPM downloads dashboard with Google Sheets
I'm in the lucky position that our team is very productive and we've built a lot of amazing tools on NPM that developers for the most part love to use. The manager in me likes to quickly get a picture of how the web is doing, and how the work that our team does is going, so I end up building a lot of dashboards. One area that was a frustration was that I would have to go through each of our teams NPM modules by hand and see how they are doing.
Getting Feedback in to Chrome: Web Developer Insights Community
How do we get your feedback in to the Chrome Web Platform team?
The unofficial way to embed Squoosh into your web app.
I wanted the functionality of Squoosh, but in my web app. Here's how I did it.
Putting an image on the page is easy, until it's not
It should be easier to put an image on the page.
My Drafts
I want to share my thinking with you, and to refine my thoughts with feedback from developers.
Web Developers. Want help? I want to help. Book a meeting with me.
After the Chrome Dev Summit, I had the chance to take some time off and spend it with my family, and during the downtime I got to think about all that has happened over the last year. I'm incredibly proud of my team and how they responded to the crisis that hit the world this year - we built tools like web.dev/covid to give developers advice on how to keep sites up and running, set up a forum for public services support during the lock-downs; ran web.
Creating a quick launcher for Android using the web
The web is a powerful thing, with the right capabilities you can create tools and services that can be deployed without a central authority and can also deeply integrate with the peoples devices. I love being able to tinker and scratch an itch quickly. The itch in question was that I'm a heavy user of .new domains and I wanted a quick way to have access to them on my Android home screen so that I can start a task without having to find the app, go through its menus and then create the "new" thing.