Security News > 2021 > May > Google Chrome is getting a new Progressive Web App feature

As more companies and independent developers are switching to Progressive Web Apps as their preferred solution for native apps, Microsoft and Google are slowly adding new PWA features to improve the web apps experience on Windows and other platforms.

For those unaware, Progressive web app, or PWA, is the latest web technology that allows anyone to use web sites as native mobile or desktop apps.

In the latest effort to improve the web apps experience, Google appears to be working on a new API that will allow Chrome progressive web apps to 'handle' files in the operating system's file system.

While a web app can register its ability to handle one of these file types in its manifest, this feature is currently not supported by Chromium.

In the documentation, Google noted that the goal of their new project is to improve transparency between web apps and native apps, and deliver a "More consistent user experience" by enabling support for file handlers.

As part of the next web app update, Google is working on a new permission prompt that will ask users to confirm whether a PWA can register itself as a file handler for certain file extensions.

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