A Whirlwind Tour of Modern Web APIs

Web browsers have implemented dozens of powerful new APIs over the past few years. Come for a tour and find out what amazing things you can do on a web page in JavaScript!

Ted Mielczarek has worked for Mozilla for 10 years and has firsthand experience with how Web APIs get designed and implemented in web browsers. He proposed the initial idea of the Gamepad API (https://www.w3.org/TR/gamepad/), now implemented by all major browsers, co-authoring the W3C specification for it and writing Firefox's implementation.