I'm very excited to see this work progressing because developers could fix a whole category of problems by adopting Shared Workers, but they are currently blocked because the necessary APIs aren't available there. Reilly Grant | Software Engineer | [email protected] | Google Chrome <https://www.google.com/chrome>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 6:25 AM Chromestatus < [email protected]> wrote: > *Contact emails* > [email protected] > > *Explainer* > https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/workers-permissions-policy > > *Specification* > *No information provided* > > *Summary* > Extend the Permissions Policy infrastructure to dedicated and shared > workers. Web developers will be able to delegate policy-controlled features > to dedicated and shared workers via Permissions Policy. This will enable > browsers to expose features gated behind Permissions Policy to workers. > > *Blink component* > Blink > <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%22> > > *Web Feature ID* > permissions-policy <https://webstatus.dev/features/permissions-policy> > > *Motivation* > The goal of this proposal is to extend Permissions Policy to workers, in > order to enable shipping Permissions Policy gated capabilities to those > contexts. Note there are a number of proposals and use cases for extending > Web APIs that are currently gated behind Permissions Policy to workers (see > https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/workers-permissions-policy#example-use-cases) > which have been blocked until because Permissions Policy does not yet work > in workers. This proposal aims at unblocking those. > > *Initial public proposal* > *No information provided* > > *Goals for experimentation* > None > > *Requires code in //chrome?* > False > > *Tracking bug* > https://issues.chromium.org/u/1/issues/562705553 > > *Estimated milestones* > > No milestones specified > > > *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status* > https://chromestatus.com/feature/5073502741856256?gate=5148864016416768 > > This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status > <https://chromestatus.com>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "blink-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/6aabea27.ae630bd9.288bfa.0058.GAE%40google.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/6aabea27.ae630bd9.288bfa.0058.GAE%40google.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAEmk%3DMafk_kt3jMygPSavAdzW0SXs-mx5cRNKOL9rLHGqNB6_w%40mail.gmail.com.
