The (Abundant) State of the Web

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Browsers now ship concrete features: cross-document view transition animates an element between two pages, the document picture-in-picture API opens floating HTML, WebHID updates XREAL AR glasses firmware, and File System Access plus VS Code.dev let editors run in-browser; speculation rules API pre-renders next pages. A new server-driven technique, declarative partial updates, streams markers and templates in one request — demonstrated as a single GET that stays open and successfully drives slide changes. Some APIs still lack Firefox/Safari support; local LLMs run in-browser with cloud fallback.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:35New UI primitives
3. 5:26Advanced APIs
4. 9:11Tab as computer
5. 13:25AI apps on web
6. 15:56Declarative partial updates
7. 19:56Zero-JS web app demo
8. 21:20Future of browser software

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