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Explainers by Googlers

This organization holds early explainers for changes to the web platform that are being developed by teams within Google.

This organization holds early explainers for changes to the web platform that are being developed by teams within Google. These explainers are invitations for feedback. They start out by roughly describing a problem that users face on the web and possibly a sketch of one or more designs that might solve that problem. We expect both the problem statement and solutions to change, sometimes dramatically, in response to feedback. As an explainer matures, and more people and organizations agree with the problem statement, we also expect to transfer its repository to an "incubation venue" like a W3C Community Group. If a team decides to stop working on an explainer, we'll archive its repository instead.

Note that Google contains many teams, and the fact that one team is proposing a change doesn't mean either that every team agrees with the change or that the change will be accepted by the Blink launch process.

For Googlers

If you need to publish a new explainer, see go/create-web-platform-explainer for instructions.

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  2. Partitioning-visited-links-history Partitioning-visited-links-history Public

    A proposal to partition :visited link history by top-level site and frame origin.

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  3. companion-windows companion-windows Public

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  • task-interrupt-timing Public

    Explainer for the Task Interrupt Timing API: PerformanceObserver entry to detect main-thread jank with configurable thresholds and point-in-time stack trace.

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    Bikeshed 1 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 1 Updated Sep 10, 2026
  • activitypub-service-content-delivery Public

    Explainer for ActivityPub server-to-service content delivery

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    Bikeshed 0 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 1 Updated Sep 10, 2026
  • dbsc-js-api Public

    A JavaScript API for interacting with Device Bound Session Credentials

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    Bikeshed 3 CC-BY-4.0 2 0 0 Updated Sep 9, 2026
  • single-axis-scroll-containers Public

    Single-Axis Scroll Containers explainer

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    Bikeshed 0 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 1 Updated Sep 4, 2026
  • scroll-snap-stop-before Public

    Use scroll-snap-stop: before to prevent reaching the snap area on flings

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    HTML 1 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 0 Updated Sep 3, 2026
  • scroll-snap-type-pair Public

    Use scroll-snap-type: pair to snap to a single element

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    Bikeshed 1 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 0 Updated Sep 3, 2026
  • ua-image-replacement Public

    Simple API for allowing authors to respond to browser features which edit images in the page

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    Bikeshed 3 CC-BY-4.0 0 2 1 Updated Sep 2, 2026
  • chromeos-iwa-apis Public

    Explainers and specs of APIs for Isolated Web Apps (IWAs) in ChromeOS.

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    HTML 0 CC-BY-4.0 1 4 5 Updated Aug 28, 2026
  • private-verification-tokens Public

    Private Verification Tokens (PVT) is a low-entropy mechanism for users to transfer the trust they have established in regular browsing into private browsing mode to reduce their experienced friction

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    Bikeshed 9 CC-BY-4.0 2 2 1 Updated Aug 25, 2026
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