Chrome 37

Enabled (10) | Origin Trial (0) | Behind a flag (0) | Deprecated (0) | Removed (0)

Enabled by default in 37

This release of Chrome had 10 new features.

Element

An HTML element for a dialog box #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/07/dialog-element-shipped-in-Chrome-37-Betahttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLDialogElement

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/dialog/index.htmlhttp://demo.agektmr.com/dialog/

CSS "all" shorthand

The all property is a shorthand that resets all CSS properties except direction and unicode-bidi. It only accepts the CSS-wide keywords. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

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

No linked samples

CSS Shapes Module Level 1

CSS Shapes allows one to specify a geometric "shape-outside" for a float. Content will wrap around the float's shape-outside, instead of its rectangular boundary. The shape-outside property can be specified with a geometric primitive, like an ellipse or a polygon, or by the pixels of an image's alpha channel whose values are greater than shape-image-threshold. A shape-outside's boundary can be uniformly expanded with the shape-margin property. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/category/features/css-shapes/http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/shapes/getting-started/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/shape

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/css-shapes

Cross Origin Font Loading Restriction

Aligning with the specification (and other browsers) and blocking cross origin font loading, unless the response include the appropriate CORS headers. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

DirectWrite on Windows

Use DirectWrite instead of GDI for text on Windows. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Fractional TouchEvent co-ordinates

Updates co-ordinates returned by TouchEvent objects to include the full precision provided by the underlying platform. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/09/Precision-Touch-for-Precise-Gestures

Samples: http://www.rbyers.net/paint.html#pointshttp://jsbin.com/idojig/2/quiet

Navigator.hardwareConcurrency

This is a new attribute on the Navigator object. It returns the number of tasks that can be run efficiently in parallel on the current system under ideal circumstances. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/NavigatorCores

Samples: http://wg.oftn.org/projects/core-estimator/demo/

NavigatorLanguage: navigator.languages and languagechange event

navigator.languages will expose the Accept Languages and languageevent (fired on the Window object) will notify of a change in this value. The goal is to allow web applications to handle i18n on the client side, thus allowing offline applications to react to user language changes. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorLanguage.languages

No linked samples

Subpixel font scaling

Allow sub-css-pixel font-sizes and thus smooth font scaling. #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Web Crypto API

JavaScript bindings for cryptographic operations #

This feature was specified in this Spec.

Resources

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Crypto_API

No linked samples

Origin Trials in-progress in 37

This release of Chrome had 0 new origin trials.

Flagged features in 37

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 37

This release of Chrome had 0 features deprecated.

Removed features in 37

This release of Chrome had 0 features removed.