The Web You Didn't Know You Had
Google I/O Extended Singapore, 27 Jun 2026
💬 Testimonials
The other highlight for me was “The Web You Didn’t Know You Had” with Trung Vo . 🌐 We explored the changing landscape of web development, from simplifying code to teaching AI the “new web” through CSS carousels and Modern Web Guidance. The coolest part was seeing “The Web From The Future”, specifically how Built-in AI, HTML-in-Canvas, and WebMCP are enabling more practical, creative applications. Trung demoed a custom Spotify-like app in Angular that leveraged these technologies, and it really got my gears turning about the potential of AI-integrated web tech.
“The Web You Didn’t Know You Had” were packed with forward-looking ideas.😆💡 Loved the Angular + Spotify demo that generated Han Yu Pin Yin on the fly while a Chinese track played 🎶 —such a clever accessibility boost.
That shift really hit me too — especially after seeing Trung Vo’s session on running agents directly in the browser, and the Canvas demos. The tooling is getting good enough that the bottleneck genuinely moves from “can I build this” to “do I actually know what I want.” Intent becomes the skill. — Le Shwe Yee Win
Every year or so, something on the web makes me stop and think, wait, you can do that now? A layout that used to need a library, a component that used to need JavaScript, now just working in plain HTML and CSS. I have been building for the web for about a decade, and that feeling has not slowed down. If anything, it keeps happening more often.
Here is the catch. Most developers never find out. I keep meeting people who have never seen what the browser can do today, features that shipped a year or two ago that most of us still have not noticed. The platform has been moving fast, and most of us have not kept pace with it.
There is a new twist in 2026. The AI assistants we now build with have the same blind spot. Ask one to build something for the web and it usually reaches for the old answer, more JavaScript or another dependency, because it learned from an older web and its knowledge cutoff hides most of what shipped recently.
So this talk is a tour of what the browser can actually do now, the kind of features that make you rethink how much code you really need. A lot of it quietly replaces things you used to reach for a library or JavaScript to do: native carousels, dialogs and popovers, theming with light-dark, container queries, scroll-driven animations, view transitions, anchor positioning, and plenty more. Some of it is genuinely new, like rendering live HTML inside a canvas or letting an AI agent control your page through WebMCP, and I will show how to point your AI tools at the right feature instead of the old one with Modern Web Guidance. It is practical and demo-heavy. You will see real code, walk away with things you can try the next morning, and maybe get that “Wait, the web can do that?” moment for yourself.
