Lighthouse 2.7 Updates
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What's New In DevTools (Chrome 65) Note: The video version of these release notes will be published around early-March 2018. New features coming to DevTools in Chrome 65 include: Local Overrides New...
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CSS Paint API New possibilities in Chrome 65 CSS Paint API (also known as “CSS Custom Paint” or “Houdini’s paint worklet”) is about to be enabled by default in Chrome Stable. What is it? What can you...
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Using DevTools Features Without Opening DevTools I commonly see questions along the lines of "I really like feature X of DevTools, but it stops working when I close DevTools. How do I keep feature X...
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New in Chrome 64 Support for ResizeObservers, will notify you when an element’s content rectangle has changed its size. Modules can now access to host specific metadata with import.meta. The pop-up...
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Chrome User Experience Report: New country dimension The Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is a public dataset of real user performance data. Since we announced the report, one of the most...
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Meltdown/Spectre Overview On January 3rd Project Zero revealed vulnerabilities in modern CPUs that a process can use to read (at worst) arbitrary memory — including memory that doesn’t belong to that...
View ArticleDeprecations and removals in Chrome 65
Deprecations and removals in Chrome 65 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...
View ArticleLighthouse 2.8 Updates
Lighthouse 2.8 Updates Lighthouse 2.8 is out! Highlights include: New Performance and SEO audits Performance as the first section of Lighthouse report Updated Accessibility scoring New loading message...
View ArticleWhat's New In DevTools (Chrome 66)
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 66) Note: The video version of these release notes will be published around mid-April 2018. New features and major changes coming to DevTools in Chrome 66 include:...
View ArticleEmscripting a C library to Wasm
Emscripting a C library to Wasm Sometimes you want to use a library that is only available as C or C++ code. Traditionally, this is where you give up. Well, not anymore, because now we have Emscripten...
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New in Chrome 65 The CSS Paint API allows you to programmatically generate an image. The Server Timing API allows web servers to provide performance timing information via HTTP headers. the new CSS...
View ArticleUnblocking Clipboard Access
Unblocking Clipboard Access Over the past few years, browsers have converged on using [document.execCommand] for clipboard interactions. It's great to have a single widely-supported way to integrate...
View ArticleCredential Management API Feature Detection Check-up
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View Article#SmooshGate FAQ
#SmooshGate FAQ What the smoosh happened?! A proposal for a JavaScript language feature called Array.prototype.flatten turns out to be Web-incompatible. Shipping the feature in Firefox Nightly caused...
View ArticleWorking with the new CSS Typed Object Model
Working with the new CSS Typed Object Model TL;DR CSS now has a proper object-based API for working with values in JavaScript. el.attributeStyleMap.set('padding', CSS.px(42)); const padding =...
View ArticleDeprecations and removals in Chrome 66
Deprecations and removals in Chrome 66 ImageCapture.setOptions() removed Current thinking on setting device options is to use the constrainable pattern . Consequently this property was removed from...
View ArticlemacOS native echo cancellation
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View ArticlePresent web pages to secondary attached displays
Present web pages to secondary attached displays Chrome 66 allows web pages to use a secondary attached display through the Presentation API and to control its contents through the Presentation...
View ArticleWhat's New In DevTools (Chrome 67)
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 67) Note: The video version of these release notes will be published around early June 2018. New features and major changes coming to DevTools in Chrome 67 include:...
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