Chrome Beta 111 unveils Enhanced Picture-in-Picture Displaying All web content, not just videos

Reports claim that the latest Chrome beta version 111 comes with a trial for a feature that could make the Chrome browser’s picture-in-picture feature significantly more useful. The good piece of news is that Google is looking into letting it display all web content in a floating window instead of just videos. The point notable here is that it stays on top of all your other windows. The all-new feature to make Google Chrome Picture-in-picture mode much better is dubbed “Document Picture-in-Picture”

Chrome Beta 111 Includes “Document Picture-in-Picture” Feature

François Beaufort, a Chromium developer stated:

“The Document Picture-in-Picture API makes it possible to open an always-on-top window that can be populated with arbitrary HTML content. It extends the existing Picture-in-Picture API for a video that only allows an HTML video element to be put into a Picture-in-Picture window,”

However, it’s easy to imagine entire applets that take benefit from the API too.  Let me tell you that there is a Pomodoro website that’s already using this feature with supported browsers. The fact is that everyone will absolutely use a website that gives a picture-in-picture notepad or task list. Google also suggests the Chrome feature could be used to show, say, a playlist for your music as well.

No doubt, if many websites start using full-document picture-in-picture, it would be nice for the feature to come to browsers with non-Chromium engines. However, it’s still not known whether that will happen or not. This is one of the questions the developers asked teams associated with Firefox and Safari. However, they didn’t get back a definitive answer.

According to the Chrome Platform Status tracker, the feature is said to be trialed until Chrome 115, which is going to release sometime in June. After that, developers will decide how to move forward. If you want to turn on support for this feature, you can enable its flag by doing the following steps:

• Paste chrome://flags/#document-picture-in-picture-api into your URL bar
• choose enabled from the drop-down menu
• There probably won’t be a ton of sites that support it, but you may come across some

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