Chrome for Android autoplays muted video
Video is a great way for sites to reach their users, but it can be jarring when it plays unexpectedly. This is especially true on mobile, where the user may be in an environment where audio is unwanted. Chrome on Android now allows muted videos to begin playing without user interaction. If the video was marked as muted and has the autoplay attribute, Chrome will start playing the video when it becomes visible to the user. Developers can also use script to play muted videos without user interaction. Muted videos that begin playing sound before a user action will automatically be paused.
Other features in this release
Sites that send notifications to Android devices running Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) or later may now provide a badge to show in the status bar in place of the Chrome logo.
Notification objects now provide getters for reading the notification action buttons and vibration pattern.
Cross-origin plugin content smaller than 5x5 pixels no longer loads for users that have set "Detect and run important plugin content."
The allow-presentation sandbox flag allows sites to control whether an iframe can present to external devices.
pattern attribute values on input elements now use the unicode flag, improving syntax checking and other regular expression ergonomics.
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--webkit-filter is now an alias for the unprefixed filter property and will behave identically instead of having separate behaviors.
--webkit-user-select now supports an all property which forces a selection to contain an entire element and all its descendants.
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Deprecations and interoperability improvements
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HTTP/0.9 has been deprecated in favor of HTTP/1.0, which adds response header support.
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The TextEncoder API no longer accepts arguments and will instead always encode using utf-8.
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Posted by Hayato Ito, Shadow DOM Chaffeur
