A new way to see the whole web platform
At Google I/O we announced the Web Platform Dashboard, a tool that maps the entire web platform as a set of features and shows their support across browsers. The dashboard is built on public data maintained by browser vendors and community contributors, drawing from Browser Compat Data, Web Features, and Web Platform Tests.
The Dashboard isn't meant to replace Can I Use or MDN's browser compatibility data. For day-to-day development work, those resources are likely to remain more useful. But viewing the platform from this high-level perspective opens up other possibilities.
Using the dashboard
One practical use is seeing everything included in a given year—for example, what's part of Baseline 2023. That's a helpful way to understand what's new to the platform and discover features worth learning about.
If you write or speak about web platform topics, the dashboard helps you find what's newly available or recently become supported in all browsers. That makes it easier to put together monthly roundups or pull a list of features that have shipped in the last quarter for people to try.
You can also follow a feature's progress toward Baseline. The dashboard reports Web Platform Test scores to show implementation progress; as tests pass, a feature becomes more interoperable across browsers.
Coverage and roadmap
All features in Baseline 2023 and later are already mapped, so anything released after January 2023 is on the dashboard now, with new features added as they become available. The team is working on backfilling older features and plans to finish that later this year. Completed years will be marked with bookmarks in the sidebar.
If you have suggestions or run into bugs, the project is on GitHub.
