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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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  1. Web-Environment-Integrity Web-Environment-Integrity Public archive

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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

    lightweight windows which accompany the user around a site

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  4. CHIPS-spec CHIPS-spec Public

    Draft specification for Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS)

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  5. reduce-accept-language reduce-accept-language Public

    This repository hosts explainer for reducing passive fingerprinting in the Accept-Language header.

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  6. cross-origin-storage cross-origin-storage Public

    Explainer for the Cross-Origin Storage (COS) API

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  • async-textdetector Public

    An explainer for adding asynchronous TextDetector.create() and TextDetector.availability() methods to the Text Detection API. This allows developers to check for language support and avoids janks from synchronous TextDetector creation.

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    Bikeshed 0 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 0 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • third-party-cookie-allowlist-header Public

    This proposal is an early design sketch to describe the problem below and solicit feedback on the proposed solution. It has not been approved to ship in Chrome.

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    0 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 0 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • explainers-by-googlers/prtoken-reference’s past year of commit activity
    C++ 3 Apache-2.0 9 0 0 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • cross-origin-storage Public

    Explainer for the Cross-Origin Storage (COS) API

    explainers-by-googlers/cross-origin-storage’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 19 Apache-2.0 1 7 0 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • cpu-performance Public

    An API that exposes some information about how powerful the user device is.

    explainers-by-googlers/cpu-performance’s past year of commit activity
    Bikeshed 14 CC-BY-4.0 1 2 0 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • scroll-triggered-animations Public

    Explainer for Scroll-Triggered Animations

    explainers-by-googlers/scroll-triggered-animations’s past year of commit activity
    Bikeshed 0 CC-BY-4.0 0 0 0 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • fetch-retry Public

    Allow developers to indicate that a fetch should be retried on network errors, and the policy on retrying.

    explainers-by-googlers/fetch-retry’s past year of commit activity
    3 1 0 0 Updated Oct 3, 2025
  • approximate-geolocation Public

    Proposal for approximate location in Geolocation API

    explainers-by-googlers/approximate-geolocation’s past year of commit activity
    Bikeshed 3 CC-BY-4.0 1 4 1 Updated Sep 29, 2025
  • multicast-in-direct-sockets Public

    Allows Isolated Web Apps to subscribe to Multicast Groups and receive UDP packages, and allow to set settings like time to live for sending datagrams to multicast addresses

    explainers-by-googlers/multicast-in-direct-sockets’s past year of commit activity
    Bikeshed 5 0 0 0 Updated Sep 24, 2025
  • user-dictionary-leaks Public

    Preventing User Dictionary Leaks via ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error CSS Pseudo-Elements

    explainers-by-googlers/user-dictionary-leaks’s past year of commit activity
    1 CC-BY-4.0 2 0 0 Updated Sep 8, 2025

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