DevTools Digest, August 2016
Hi, I’m Kayce, technical writer for DevTools, here to tell you about the latest happenings in DevTools land. The Resources panel is now the Application panel As of Chrome 52, the Resources panel is no...
View ArticleAPI Deprecations and Removals in Chrome 53
In nearly every version of Chrome, we see a significant number of updates and improvements to the product, its performance, and also capabilities of the Web Platform. This article describes the...
View ArticleWeb Animations API hits cross-browser milestone
The Web Animations API is part of a new web standard, currently under development by browser engineers from Mozilla and Google. Chrome 36 implemented the element.animate() method from the Web...
View ArticleAccess USB devices on the Web
If I said plain and simple “USB”, there is a good chance that you will immediately think of keyboards, mice, audio, video and storage devices. You’re right but you’ll find other kinds of Universal...
View ArticleIntervening against document.write()
Have you recently seen a warning like the following in your Developer Console in Chrome and wondered what it was? (index):34 A Parser-blocking, cross-origin script,...
View ArticleBroadcastChannel API: a message bus for the web
The BroadcastChannel API allows same-origin scripts to send messages to other browsing contexts. It can be thought of as a simple message bus that allows pub/sub semantics between windows/tabs,...
View ArticleOptions of a PushSubscription
When a pushsubscriptionchange event occurs, it’s an opportunity for a developer to re-subscribe the user for push. One of the pain points of this is that to re-subscribe a user, the developer has to...
View ArticleDevTools Digest, September 2016: Perf Roundup
Hallo! It’s Kayce again, tech writer for DevTools. For this DevTools Digest I thought I’d switch it up a little and do a roundup of some perf tooling improvements in DevTools over the last few Chrome...
View ArticleCacheQueryOptions arrive in Chrome 54
If you use the Cache Storage API, either within a service worker or directly from web apps via window.caches, there’s some good news: starting in Chrome 54, the full set of CacheQueryOptions is...
View ArticleCross-origin Service Workers: Experimenting with Foreign Fetch
Contents Background Prerequisites Using Foreign Fetch Client considerations Learn more Stay up to date Background Service workers give web developers the ability to respond to network requests made by...
View ArticleAPI Deprecations and Removals in Chrome 54
In nearly every version of Chrome, we see a significant number of updates and improvements to the product, its performance, and also capabilities of the Web Platform. This article describes the...
View ArticleRe-rastering Composited Layers on Scale Change
TL;DR Starting in Chrome 53, all content is re-rastered when its transform scale changes, if it does not have the will-change: transform CSS property. In other words, will-change: transform means...
View ArticleUpdates to developers.google.com/web
Updates to developers.google.com/web We launched WebFundamentals two years ago to help ensure that developers had the latest guidance on how to build great sites and apps that worked well desktop, but...
View ArticleIntervening against document.write()
Intervening against document.write() Have you recently seen a warning like the following in your Developer Console in Chrome and wondered what it was? (index):34 A Parser-blocking, cross-origin...
View ArticleBroadcastChannel API: A Message Bus for the Web
BroadcastChannel API: A Message Bus for the Web The BroadcastChannel API allows same-origin scripts to send messages to other browsing contexts. It can be thought of as a simple message bus that...
View ArticleDevTools Digest, September 2016: Perf Roundup
DevTools Digest, September 2016: Perf Roundup Hallo! It's Kayce again, tech writer for DevTools. For this DevTools Digest I thought I'd switch it up a little and do a roundup of some perf tooling...
View ArticleOptions of a PushSubscription
Options of a PushSubscription When a pushsubscriptionchange event occurs, it's an opportunity for a developer to re-subscribe the user for push. One of the pain points of this is that to re-subscribe...
View ArticleCacheQueryOptions Arrive in Chrome 54
CacheQueryOptions Arrive in Chrome 54 If you use the Cache Storage API, either within a service worker or directly from web apps via window.caches, there's some good news: starting in Chrome 54, the...
View ArticleCross-origin Service Workers: Experimenting with Foreign Fetch
Cross-origin Service Workers: Experimenting with Foreign Fetch Background Service workers give web developers the ability to respond to network requests made by their web applications, allowing them...
View ArticleResizeObserver: It’s Like document.onresize for Elements
ResizeObserver: It’s Like document.onresize for Elements After MutationObserver, PerformanceObserver and IntersectionObserver, we have another observer for your collection! ResizeObserver allows you...
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