NOTE: some content in this wiki applies only to 0.12 and earlier versions. For official documentation on 0.13 and later, see http://docs.nwjs.io

The following changes to DOM is made to support native applications better:

Features marked with node only means that only Node frames can do this. Normal frames still follow the W3C standard. For definition of Node frames and Normal frames, see Security

// This behaviour is currently broken. See https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/7958
var f = new File('/path/to/file', 'name');
var files = new FileList();
files.append(f);
document.getElementById('input0').files = files;

JavaScripts can emulate user gestures while in browsers they can't. e.g. Triggering click event on file input. See File-dialogs

since v0.9.0-rc1

A new attribute nwUserAgent is added to the iframe element. The value is used as the User-Agent header from HTTP requests from that iframe, or its descendants.

since v0.5.0
See Mini-browser-in-iframe

since v0.5.1
See Mini-browser-in-iframe