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The Interop 2025 call for proposals is now open! If there's an area of the web platform you'd like to see included in next year's Interop project, please submit it via . Since its inception in 2021, the has brought many improvements to the web platform, which address some of the most important pain points that web developers have been telling us about. Earlier this year , together with Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, and Mozilla and a lot of work has already gone in. Focus areas such as , , , , , and others have seen big improvements towards interoperability, and are well on their ways to becoming . Through our various listening channels, we also know that the Interop project isn't a complete view of all developers' needs. There are important web platform APIs lacking universal browser support that have not been included in the Interop project, despite keen interest from developers. This is why we published our , and hope that it helps complete the picture of the most critical gaps in current web platform implementations. We're happy that the following areas we're tracking have improved since we published the dashboard:
- is now supported in Edge and other Chromium browsers, which allows you to place elements based on the position of other elements. This will massively simplify tooltip positioning and remove the need for using JS-based libraries. We look forward to other browsers adding support for it too.
- The API is now also implemented in Edge and other Chromium browsers, making it much easier for text editing JS libraries to detect the intended user's insertion point in text.
- The is coming to Safari, as indicated by . View Transitions will completely redefine how we think about multi-page site transitions on the web.
- Finally, is coming to Firefox, which means that sharing URLs with highlighted text snippets will soon work in all browsers.