Chrome 13

Enabled (4) | Origin Trial (0) | Behind a flag (0) | Deprecated (0) | Removed (0)

Enabled by default in 13

This release of Chrome had 4 new features.

File System API (Chromium)

With the FileSystem API, a web app can create, read, navigate, and write to a sandboxed section of the user's local file system. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem

Samples: http://www.htmlfivewow.com/demos/terminal/terminal.html

Navigation Timing API

Allows web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Navigation_timing

Samples: http://simpl.info/navigationtiming/

Typed Arrays

Buffers for holding binary data and working with WebGL & Audio API: ArrayBuffer, Float32Array , Int16Array, Uint8Array, etc.) #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Typed_arrays

No linked samples

Web SQL Database

API exposing an SQLite database #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Origin Trials in-progress in 13

This release of Chrome had 0 new origin trials.

Flagged features in 13

This release of Chrome had 0 are available behind a flag.

Deprecations and Removals

Deprecation policy

To keep the platform healthy, we sometimes remove APIs from the Web Platform which have run their course. There can be many reasons why we would remove an API, such as:

• They are superseded by newer APIs.
• They are updated to reflect changes to specifications to bring alignment and consistency with other browsers.
• They are early experiments that never came to fruition in other browsers and thus can increase the burden of support for web developers.

Some of these changes will have an effect on a very small number of sites. To mitigate issues ahead of time, we try to give developers advanced notice so they can make the required changes to keep their sites running.

Chrome currently has a process for deprecations and removals of API's, essentially:

• Announce on the blink-dev mailing list.
• Set warnings and give time scales in the Chrome DevTools Console when usage is detected on the page.
• Wait, monitor, and then remove the feature as usage drops.

You can find a list of all deprecated features on chromestatus.com using the deprecated filter and removed features by applying the removed filter. We will also try to summarize some of the changes, reasoning, and migration paths in these posts.

Deprecated features in 13

This release of Chrome had 0 features deprecated.

Removed features in 13

This release of Chrome had 0 features removed.