Chromium Blog: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more

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Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more

Friday, September 20, 2019

ChromeStatus.com CSS Properties and Values

Smarter custom properties with Houdini's new API Native File Systemnow in an origin trial

The Native File System API: Simplifying access to local filesSee the Origin Trials section for information on signing up and for a list of other origin trials in this release. Origin TrialsOrigin Trials dashboardOrigin Trials Guide for Web Developers Signed Exchange Subresource Prefetching and Loading by Extending the HTTP Link Header.Signed Exchanges SMS Receiver APISMS Receiver API Other Features in this Release Apply Opacity for the Default Style of INPUT/TEXTAREA placeholderChanges the default style for ::placeholder#757575rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54) Extend Byte-for-Byte Update Check to all Service Worker importScripts() ResourcesByte-for-byte checks are now availableimportScripts() Faster Web SocketsArrayBuffer objectsWebSocket objects

Linux: 7.5 times faster

Windows: 4.1 times faster

Mac: 7.8 times faster

More restrictive hasEnrolledInstrument() for Autofill Instrumentsrequiring unexpired cards and a billing addressPaymentRequest.hasEnrolledInstrument() PaymentResponse.prototype.retry()retry() method of a PaymentResponse Percentage Opacitysupport for percentage values to the opacity propertiesopacitystop-opacityfill-opacitystroke-opacityshape-image-thresholdopacity: 50%opacity: 0.5rgba()rgba(0, 255, 0, 50%) Redact Address in PaymentRequest.onshippingaddresschange EventRemoves fine-grained information from the shipping addressShippingAddressChangePaymentRequest.onshippingaddresschangerecipientorganizationaddressLinephoneNumber SeekingAdds a media session action handlerseektoaction handlerseekto User Timing L3Extends the existing User Timing API

Developers can pass custom timestamps to performance.measure() and performance.mark(), so as to conduct measurement across arbitrary timestamps.

Developers can report arbitrary metadata with performance.mark() and performance.measure(), which provides rich data to analytics via a standardized API.