Warm-Up Talk: Browser APIs – the unknown Super Heroes

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Live demos show concrete behavior: the Battery Status API returns level, charging state and events (demo glitches with "infinite seconds" when unplugged); the Web Audio API builds oscillators and hits a 40 kHz tone (inaudible to humans) and supports MIDI/drum machines; the Page Visibility API pauses/resumes video; speech synthesis lists voices and controls pitch/rate (Google voices require online Chrome); Web Bluetooth pairs to a PlayBulb and writes RGB bytes with audience-driven color tweets — some demos work reliably, some fail noisily.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:00Battery Status
3. 2:45Battery API
4. 4:23Web Audio
5. 9:30Video Visibility
6. 12:10Speech Synthesis
7. 14:35Web Bluetooth
8. 17:00RGB
9. 19:25Wonder Woman

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