Web Directions Year round learning for product, design and engineering professionals

Scroll‑driven animations, view transitions, OPFS, WebGPU, Passkeys & FedCM: where they’re ready and how to adopt them safely

The web platform continues to evolve and gain capabilities more quickly than we’re able to keep up. At our Developer Summit, we will focus on some of those key features that have recently landed or are about to land in the platform to help you and your team keep up.

CSS: rich interaction without JS contortions

• Scroll‑driven animations (scroll-timeline, view-timeline) cut a class of brittle scroll hacks.
• View Transitions API enables page‑to‑page choreography with minimal complexity.
• Modern form controls are becoming styleable in predictable ways—less custom widget churn.

Storage & offline: OPFS grows up

The Origin Private File System (OPFS) and IndexedDB make large, structured client‑side data practical: drafts, assets, model files. Paired with Service Workers you can design local first–for “mostly‑connected” instead of “always‑on.”

Compute on the client: WebGPU

WebGPU unlocks classes of work we once avoided on the web—image/video processing, ML inference, data viz at scale. The question isn’t “can we?” but “where does it actually pay off?” Start with bounded tasks you can measure.

Identity: Passkeys and FedCM

• Passkeys finally make strong auth pleasant enough to recommend.
• FedCM cleans up third‑party sign‑in flows with better privacy and clearer UX.

Rollout strategy that won’t backfire

1. Pilot one feature per capability area (interaction, storage, compute, identity).
2. Ship behind a flag with clear success criteria.
3. Measure: did we delete code or reduce defects? If not, back it out.

Register for Web Directions Developer Summit and join us November 19-20 in Sydney (or streaming online) to explore these transformations with the people driving them.