Chrome 78 Released with CSS types, native file system, SMS receiver, and more

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/10/nic78

by The_rationalist • 7 years ago

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The_rationalist• 7 years ago

Actually it was released 4 days ago but it wasn't covered on hackernews (only the DevTools)

If you want to look at all the new features: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule

FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE:

Blink>Bluetooth Web Bluetooth getAvailability() Blink>CSS CSS Properties and Values API Level 1 (Houdini) Percentage opacity Blink>Forms Apply opacity for the default style of INPUT/TEXTAREA placeholder Blink>HID WebHID (Human Interface Device) Blink>JavaScript>Internationalization "numberingSystem" option for Intl.NumberFormat / "calendar" and "numberingSystem" option for Intl.DateTimeFormat Blink>JavaScript>WebAssembly WebAssembly Reference Types Blink>Loader Subresource prefetching+loading via Signed HTTP Exchange

Blink>Media>Session Seeking for Media Session Blink>Network>WebSockets WebSocketStream

Blink>Payments More restrictive hasEnrolledInstrument() for autofill instruments PaymentResponse.prototype.retry() Redact address in PaymentRequest.onshippingaddresschange event Blink>PerformanceAPIs User Timing L3 Blink>SMS SMS Receiver API

Blink>Scroll Rendering Independent Scroll Offsets Blink>SecurityFeature XSS Auditor

Blink>ServiceWorker Extend byte-for-byte update check to all service worker importScripts() resources Blink>Storage>FileSystem Native File System

UI>Browser>WebAppInstalls Screen Enumeration

thosakwe• 7 years ago

Most excited about the native file system API. Oh, how I would love to have a DAW like Reaper, or a (significantly lighter-weight) iMovie in the browser.

Chrome 78 Released with CSS types, native file system, SMS receiver, and more

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