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Web Audio, Autoplay Policy and Games
Web Audio, Autoplay Policy and Games In September 2017 we announced an upcoming change to how audio would be handled with autoplay behavior policy in Chrome. The policy change was released with Chrome...
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What's New In DevTools (Chrome 72)
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 72) Note: We'll publish the video version of this page in early February 2019. New features and major changes coming to Chrome DevTools in Chrome 72 include: Visualize...
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Introducing Background Fetch
Introducing Background Fetch In 2015 we introduced Background Sync which allows the service worker to defer work until the user has connectivity. This means the user could type a message, hit send,...
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New in Chrome 71
New in Chrome 71 In Chrome 71, we've added support for: Displaying relative times is now part of the Intl API. Specifying which side of the text the underline should appear on for text that flows...
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Registering as a Share Target with the Web Share Target API
Registering as a Share Target with the Web Share Target API What is the Web Share Target API? System-level share target picker with installed PWA as an option. On your mobile device, sharing something...
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Badging for App Icons
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Public and private class fields
Public and private class fields Several proposals expand the existing JavaScript class syntax with new functionality. This article explains the new public class fields syntax in V8 v7.2 and Chrome 72,...
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The Intl.ListFormat API
The Intl.ListFormat API Modern web applications often use lists consisting of dynamic data. For example, a photo viewer app might display something like: This photo includes Ada, Edith, and Grace. A...
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I’m Awake! Stay Awake with the WakeLock API
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Deprecations and removals in Chrome 72
Deprecations and removals in Chrome 72 Removals Don't allow popups during page unload Pages may no longer use window.open() to open a new page during unload. The Chrome popup blocker already...
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Check If Your Native App Is Installed With getInstalledRelatedApps
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Faces, and Barcodes—The Shape Detection API
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Faces, and Barcodes—The Shape Detection API Warning: We’re currently working the specification for this API as part of the capabilities project. We’ll keep this...
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Making user activation consistent across APIs
Making user activation consistent across APIs To prevent malicious scripts from abusing sensitive APIs like popups, fullscreen etc., browsers control access to those APIs through user activation. User...
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What's New In DevTools (Chrome 73)
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 73) Note: We'll publish the video version of this page in mid-March 2019. Here's what's new in DevTools in Chrome 73. Logpoints Use Logpoints to log messages to the...
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New in Chrome 72
New in Chrome 72 In Chrome 72, we've added support for: Creating public class fields in JavaScript is now much cleaner. You can see if a page has been activated with the new User Activation API...
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Prototyping Platform Packs for Lighthouse
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RTCQuicTransport Coming to an Origin Trial Near You (Chrome 73)
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Lightning-fast templates & Web Components: lit-html & LitElement
Lightning-fast templates & Web Components: lit-html & LitElement Today we're excited to announce the first stable releases of our two next-generation web development libraries: lit-html and...
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Using Trusted Web Activity
Using Trusted Web Activity Last updated: February 6th, 2019 Trusted Web Activities are a new way to integrate your web-app content such as your PWA with your Android app using a protocol based on...
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