Elements, events, network requests, storage and other standard Web APIs that provide useful functionality for Open Web Apps. The summary table on our Web API team's main Wiki page also provides a useful overview of what's supported and where.
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Network requests - send and receive data with
XMLHttpRequest -
XMLHttpRequestis the DOM API used to send and receive information using HTTP, including for downloading files. - Battery Status API
- Provides information about the system's battery charge level and lets you be notified by events that are sent when the battery level changes.
- DOM events
- The event reference provides a complete list of all the events that can be sent and received to interact with DOM objects.
- Touch events
- This documentation covers touch events in particular, which of course you are likely to encounter when developing apps for touchscreen devices.
- Online & offline events
- Allows your app to dynamically respond to changes in network connection availability.
- History
- Traverse and manipulate the historical view state of your app with various commands - helpful in rewinding or advancing the user's current view.
- Audio
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Embedding and manipulation of audio content with the HTML5
audioelement. - Video
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Embedding and manipulation of video content with the HTML5
videoelement. - Geolocation
- Enables your app to request the user's current location and listen for location changes.
- Screen orientation
- Listen for high-level screen orientation changes between various portrait and landscape positions.
- Device orientation
- Allows your app to detect granular device orientation changes from on-device sensors.
- IndexedDB
- A database access layer for Web apps that provides a scriptable interface for storing and retrieving large sets of data on the user's device.
- Storage
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The Storage API family provides various way to persistently store limited amounts of simple data on a user's device.
localStoragesessionStorageBlob- An object that represents a file-like object of immutable, raw data. The data contained can be manipulated and mutated into several common formats (images, etc).
- Web workers
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Allows apps to run JavaScript code (which cannot touch the DOM or
windowobject) in background threads to optimize performance and unblock UI rendering.
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