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Portals

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

New or changed feature

Status

In developer trial (Behind a flag) (Chrome In developer trial (Behind a flag))

Intent stage

Dev trials

Summary

This is a proposal for enabling seamless navigations between sites or pages. In particular, this proposal enables a page to show another page as an inset and perform a seamless transition between an inset state and a navigated state.

Motivation

Enable seamless transitions across navigations.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://wicg.github.io/portals
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Mixed signals — Feedback mostly positive, but some negative. Positive: https://medium.com/@bluepnume/google-chromes-portals-like-iframes-but-better-and-worse-29e0bbb3f78e Negative: https://trib.tv/2019/05/28/cake-or-death-amp-and-the-worrying-power-dynamics-of-the-web/
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/1040212

Docs: https://github.com/WICG/portals#readme https://wicg.github.io/portals https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ITizGVUmfFGktOOynHFhx87cnJ__7EXy-4uMpOE0OAg/edit?usp=sharing

Explainers: https://github.com/WICG/portals/blob/master/explainer.md

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