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This release of Chrome had 15 new features.
execCommand("copy") and execCommand("cut") should be allowed to modify the system clipboard in the context of a user gesture (the spec uses the language "allowed to show a popup"). #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document.execCommandhttp://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/04/cut-and-copy-commands
Samples: http://jsbin.com/yanamebope/quiethttps://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/cut-and-copy
An API on Document for returning the sequence of elements under a point. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document/elementsFromPoint
No linked samplesThe Cache API allows authors to fully and conveniently manage their content caches for offline use. An origin can have multiple, named Cache objects. This API is already available in a Service Worker context. This entry is to make it available globally (=> accessible from a document context). #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cachehttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CacheStorage
Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/service-worker/window-caches
Addition of the response.body property to the Fetch API. response.body is a ReadableStream from the Streams Standard. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/35_QSL1ABTYhttps://streams.spec.whatwg.org/#rshttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/fetch-api/fetch-response-stream.html
The 'buttons' property on MouseEvent indicates (for ALL mouse events) which combination of buttons are current down. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MouseEvent/buttons
No linked samplesBlink has placed DOM attributes on instances instead of prototypes. However, the Web IDL spec requires that DOM attributes must be placed on prototype chains (except for a few exceptions such as static attributes and [Unforgeable].) We move DOM attributes on instances to prototype chains following the spec. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/04/DOM-attributes-now-on-the-prototype
No linked samplesThe Permissions API allows a web application to be aware of the status of a given permission, to know whether it is granted, denied or if the user will be asked whether the permission should be granted. The purpose of the API is to improve general UX with regards to permissions on the Web, allowing developers to be aware of what is going to happen will enable better flow. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/04/permissions-api-for-the-webhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Permissions_API
Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/permissions/index.html
Change the initial value of document.designMode from "inherit" to "off" and remove support for "inherit". #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
CSS Animations without the -webkit- prefix. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using_CSS_animations
Samples: https://jsfiddle.net/cm1yrqy2/3/embedded/result/
We encourage authors to transition their sites and applications away from insecure transport, and onto encrypted and authenticated connections, but mixed content checking causes headaches. This feature allows authors to ask the user agent to transparently upgrade HTTP resources to HTTPS to ease the migration burden. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/csp-upgrade-insecure-requests
Defines an API supporting the MIDI protocol, enabling web applications to enumerate and select MIDI input and output devices on the client system and send and receive MIDI messages. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIAccesshttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIConnectionEventhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIInput
No linked samplesAn AudioContext can now be explicitly closed, thereby releasing any hardware resources associated with the AudioContext. Without this, developers had to depend on garbage collection of the AudioContext to release hardware resources. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#widl-AudioContext-close-Promise;https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioContext/close
Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/webaudio-audiocontext-close
Support the copyFromChannel and copyToChannel methods on a WebAudio AudioBuffer #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#widl-AudioBuffer-copyFromChannel-void-Float32Array-destination-long-channelNumber-unsigned-long-startInChannelhttp://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#widl-AudioBuffer-copyToChannel-void-Float32Array-source-long-channelNumber-unsigned-long-startInChannelhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioBuffer/copyFromChannelhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioBuffer/copyToChannel
No linked samplesCurrently AudioNode.disconnect() disconnects all existing connections from output(s) of the AudioNode. This is to support disconnecting only one connection. There have been numerous requests to support selective disconnection with disconnect() method and Audio WG agreed to change the spec to accommodate the feature request. With this change, it is possible to disconnect a signal path out of multiple connections to AudioNode input or AudioParam. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioNode/disconnect
Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/webaudio-audionode-disconnect
Enables web pages to give hint with regards to the autocapitalization behaviour to use on text fields. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputElement
Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/autocapitalize
This release of Chrome had 0 new origin trials.
This release of Chrome had 1 are available behind a flag.
The font-size-adjust CSS property specifies that font size should be chosen based on the height of lowercase letters rather than the height of capital letters. It was once dropped since css 2.1, but newly defined in CSS3 font. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.
Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-size-adjust
No linked samplesTo 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:
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:
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.
This release of Chrome had 0 features deprecated.
This release of Chrome had 1 features removed.
The overflowchanged event and the OverflowEvent interface have been removed. #
This feature was specified in this Spec.