Chrome 36

Enabled (7) | Origin Trial (0) | Behind a flag (0) | Deprecated (0) | Removed (0)

Enabled by default in 36

This release of Chrome had 7 new features.

CSS touch-action

New CSS property to enable websites to declaratively state how touches should be handled for purposes of scrolling and zooming. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/touch-action

Samples: http://rbyers.github.io/touch-action.html

CSS will-change

Adds a will-change CSS property, that can be used to signal that a particular property is likely to be changed in the future, or that an element’s content is likely to change. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/will-changehttp://dev.opera.com/articles/css-will-change-property/

No linked samples

Unprefixed CSS Transforms

Enables changing the position of content in 3D space without disrupting the document's normal flow. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using_CSS_transforms

No linked samples

WOFF 2.0 (improved font compression)

WOFF 2.0 significantly improves font compression. We are seeing average gains of 24% with peaks above 50% in particular for the larger fonts such as those typically used by CJK languages (analysis ran on the whole Google Fonts corpus). M33: switching to Brotli Compression Algorithm (instead of LZMA). M36: enabled by default. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

WeakMap (ES6)

WeakMaps are key/value maps in which keys are objects. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/WeakMap

No linked samples

WeakSet (ES6)

ES6 WeakSets are sets of arbitrary JavaScript objects, that hold on to their keys weakly #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/WeakSet

No linked samples

Web Animations JavaScript API [element.animate()]

A unified model for supporting animation and synchronization on the Web platform. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/05/Web-Animations---element-animate-is-now-in-Chrome-36

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/web-animations

Origin Trials in-progress in 36

This release of Chrome had 0 new origin trials.

Flagged features in 36

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 36

This release of Chrome had 0 features deprecated.

Removed features in 36

This release of Chrome had 0 features removed.