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Chrome 54 Beta: Custom Elements V1, BroadcastChannel, and media platform improvements
Donnerstag, 15. September 2016
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome
Beta
channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Custom Elements V1
Complex user interfaces often require a large amount of HTML. Most languages allow developers to create their own components built on top of language primitives to mitigate this kind of verbosity. Custom elements
allow developers to create their own custom HTML tags
, and define the new element’s API and behavior in JavaScript. This enables a browser-native way to build reusable, interoperable components.
Chrome 54 provides support for the latest custom elements
V1 spec
, which is broadly agreed-upon by major browser vendors. Chrome will also continue to support the
V0 API
until enough developers have moved to V1.
BroadcastChannel
It is not uncommon for desktop users to have multiple windows or tabs open simultaneously. Some sites utilize this behavior, such as web editors that open documents in their own tabs. Historically, communicating between those tabs has been difficult.
BroadcastChannel
is a new one-to-many messaging API between windows, tabs, iframes, web workers, and service workers. It allows scripts to establish named channels to send messages between browsing contexts of the same origin.
Media platform improvements on Chrome for Android
Media is an increasingly large and important part of the browsing experience on mobile devices that requires fluidly utilizing the entire screen. Developers can now use
Element.requestFullScreen()
to trigger full screen mode after a
screen orientation change
in addition to after a user gesture. This allows experiences like rotate-to-fullscreen for media players.
In addition to fullscreen improvements, Chrome on Android now persists the media notification of a backgrounded
HTMLVideoElement
, allowing a user to continue playing videos while they aren’t visible. Developers can detect background video playback by using the
Page Visibility API
.
Playing background videos in Chrome 54.
Other features in this release
Navigations initiated in an unload handler
will be blocked
and any prior navigation will continue.
The
imageSmoothingQuality
attribute for
CanvasRenderingContext2D
allows developers to balance performance and image quality by adjusting resolution when scaling.
Sites can use
Node.getRootNode(options)
to obtain the root for a given node.
Using
PushSubscription.options
, sites can track
applicationServerKeys
without having to store them offline.
The
Resource Timing API
now supports
transfer
,
encoded
, and
decoded
size attributes, allowing developers to measure cache hit rates and byte usage.
The
user-select
property enables developers to specify which elements can be selected by the user and how.
Foreign F
e
tch
and
WebUSB
are available for experimentation as
origin trials
.
The
text-size-adjust
property allows sites to control whether font size automatically scales on mobile devices.
Deprecations and interoperability improvements
To match behavior in other browsers, embedded YouTube Flash players will be rewritten by Chrome to use the HTML5 embed style, improving performance and security on Chrome Desktop.
CacheQueryOptions
now conforms to spec across all
CacheStorage
methods.
initTouchEvent
has been removed in favor of the
new TouchEvent()
constructor.
SVGZoomEvent
has been removed as it is no longer part of the SVG 2.0 spec.
SVGSVGElement.currentView
,
SVGSVGElement.useCurrentView
,
SVGViewSpec
interface, and
SVGSVGElement.viewport
have been removed
as they are no longer part of the
SVG 2.0 spec
.
SVGTests.requiredFeatures
attribute
has been deprecated since it no longer provides useful functionality in the SVG 2.0 spec.
SVGElement
now supports the
dataset
property.
The
KeyEvent.keyIdentifier
field has been removed in favor of the
KeyboardEvent.key
field.
window.external.IsSearchProviderInstalled()
and
AddSearchProvider()
are now no-ops, since they are unsupported in most other browsers.
Posted by Marijn Kruisselbrink, Broadcast Buccaneer
Moving Towards a More Secure Web
Donnerstag, 8. September 2016
To help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in the address bar. Historically, Chrome has not explicitly labelled HTTP connections as non-secure. Beginning in January 2017 (Chrome 56), we’ll mark HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as non-secure, as part of a long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure.
Chrome currently indicates HTTP connections with a neutral indicator. This doesn’t reflect the true lack of security for HTTP connections. When you load a website over HTTP, someone else on the network can look at or
modify
the site before it gets to you.
A substantial portion of web traffic has transitioned to HTTPS so far, and HTTPS usage is consistently increasing. We recently hit a milestone with more than half of Chrome desktop page loads now served over HTTPS. In addition, since the time we
released our HTTPS report
in February, 12 more of the top 100 websites have changed their serving default from HTTP to HTTPS.
Studies show that users
do not perceive
the lack of a “secure” icon as a warning, but also that users become blind to warnings that occur too frequently.
Our plan
to label HTTP sites more clearly and accurately as non-secure will take place in gradual steps, based on increasingly stringent criteria. Starting January 2017, Chrome 56 will label HTTP pages with password or credit card form fields as "not secure," given their particularly sensitive nature.
In following releases, we will continue to extend HTTP warnings, for example, by labelling HTTP pages as “not secure” in Incognito mode, where users may have higher expectations of privacy. Eventually, we plan to label all HTTP pages as non-secure, and change the HTTP security indicator to the red triangle that we use for broken HTTPS.
We will publish updates to this plan as we approach future releases, but don’t wait to get started moving to HTTPS. HTTPS is
easier and cheaper than ever before
, and enables both the
best
performance
the web offers and
powerful
new
features
that are too sensitive for HTTP. Check out our
set-up guides
to get started.
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Team
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