Chrome Platform Status - Features

Node.isConnected

2016-04-04T07:02:10Z

The isConnected attribute’s getter returns true, if context object is in a shadow-including document, and false otherwise.

Fetch API: referrer policy

2016-04-01T21:16:32Z

This feature enables users to get / set a Request's referrer policy which affect's the "Referer" HTTP header.

Array subclassing and Symbol.species support

2016-04-01T16:14:56Z

ES2015 changes the semantics of Arrays and certain other classes to create subclass instances from certain methods, and allow a new interception point, Symbol.species, to control whether it's actually the subclass or another class which is instantiated. For example, Array.prototype.map constructs instances of the subclass as its output, with the option to customize this by changing Symbol.species

Media Capture from Canvas

2016-04-01T15:23:54Z

“Media Capture from DOM Elements” document by W3C defines captureStream() method that allows the capture of the

CSS border-image: respect border style

2016-04-01T14:45:43Z

Blink will begin to require a border style in order to paint border images. This has always been required by the spec, but has not been enforced. In order to not be affected by this change, add e.g. 'border-style:solid' where border-image is used.

UIEvents KeyboardEvent |key| attribute

2016-03-30T21:33:04Z

The KeyboardEvent |key| attribute contains information about the character being generated by the key event.

CSS column-fill property

2016-03-30T12:05:45Z

column-fill is the one missing CSS property from the multicol spec (not counting break-after, break-before or break-inside, which really belong in a more generic spec for fragmentation). This property is used to tell the engine whether columns should be balanced or not. If they are balanced, each column gets similar amounts of content inside. If they are not balanced, each column will be filled to the height of the multicol container, until we run out of content.

ExtendableMessageEvent on ServiceWorkerGlobalScope

2016-03-30T09:45:01Z

ServiceWorker.postMessage() now results in an ExtendableMessageEvent fired on ServiceWorkerGlobalScope as a 'message' event. ExtendableMessageEvent.waitUntil() extends its lifetime until a passed Promise is settled. Before this change, postMessage() resulted in a MessageEvent fired on the global scope.

Deprecate / Remove Multiple Shadow Roots

2016-03-29T06:55:59Z

Dropping this feature from the spec is the resolution at Web Components f2f meeting (https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webapps/WebComponentsApril2015Meeting) Deprecated at M45. Removal is planned at M55, roughly.

'SameSite' cookie attribute

2016-03-29T06:54:03Z

Same-site cookies (née "First-Party-Only" (née "First-Party")) allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain.

Client.id

2016-03-28T23:29:12Z

Client.id is a GUID allowing the ServiceWorker to track client objects between SW termination & restart.

Deprecate DHE-based ciphers

2016-03-25T23:34:09Z

Last year, we raised the minimum TLS Diffie-Hellman group size from 512-bit to 1024-bit. As mentioned then, 1024-bit is insufficient for the long-term. However, metrics report that around 95% of DHE connections seen by Chrome use 1024-bit DHE. This, compounded with how DHE is negotiated in TLS, makes it difficult to move past 1024-bit. Servers should upgrade to ECDHE if available. Otherwise, ensure a plain-RSA cipher suite is enabled.

Audio and video tracks

2016-03-25T21:35:06Z

This adds the ability to get information about multiple audio and video tracks, and switch between them using the AudioTrack.enabled and VideoTrack.selected attributes.

Support VP9 in ISO-BMFF

2016-03-24T20:21:49Z

VP9 is an open and royalty free video coding format. ISO-BMFF (MP4) is an industry standard container and is broadly accepted and used in the industry. Chrome already supports the VP9 codec (currently only in WebM container) and the ISO-BMFF container. This enables them to be used together.

Web notifications inline replies

2016-03-24T15:16:50Z

Support adding a text reply to web notification actions.