Trust is Good, Observation is Better—Intersection Observer v2
Intersection Observer v2 adds the capability to not only observe intersections per se, but to also detect if the intersecting element was visible at the time of intersection.
Trusted Types help prevent Cross-Site Scripting
Trusted Types is a new experimental API available in Chrome that helps prevent DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting in your applications.
Get Ready for Priority Hints
Priority Hints are coming to an Origin Trial near you! Try them out!
Replacing a hot path in your app's JavaScript with WebAssembly
One key benefit that WebAssembly offers is _predictable_ performance across browsers. But how do you turn hot path written in JavaScript into WebAssembly?
Constructable Stylesheets: seamless reusable styles
Shipping in Chrome 73, Constructable Stylesheets provide a seamless way to create and distribute styles to documents or shadow roots without worrying about FOUC.
Deprecations and removals in Chrome 73
A round up of the deprecations and removals in Chrome 73 to help you plan.
Making wheel scrolling fast by default
Scrolling responsiveness is critical to the user's engagement with a website on mobile, yet
wheel event listeners often cause serious scrolling performance problems. Learn how we are helping users and developers to be fast by default.
Better match results with String.prototype.matchAll()
Chrome 73 introduces the
String.prototype.matchAll() method. It behaves similarly to match(), but offers a simple way to iterate over matches, especially when you need access to capture groups.
The model-viewer web component
Adding 3D models to a website can be tricky for a variety of reasons including the hosting issues and the high bar of 3D programming. That's why we're introducing the
<model-viewer> web component to let you use 3D models declaratively.
Using Trusted Web Activities
Trusted Web Activities are a new way to integrate your web-app content such as your PWA with your Android app using a similar protocol to Chrome Custom Tabs.
More Updates
Audio/Video Updates in Chrome 73
A round up of the audio/video updates in Chrome 73: Hardware media keys support, HDCP policy check, Picture-in-Picture origin trials, and more. Read more
Rendering on the Web
Where should we implement logic and rendering in our applications? Should we use Server Side Rendering? What about Rehydration? Let's find some answers! Read more
Lightning-fast templates & Web Components: lit-html & LitElement
lit-html and LitElement are two new libraries for building fast, interoperable components. lit-html provides lightning-fast templating. LitElement is a lightweight base class for building Web Components with lit-html templates. Read more
Even more
See more from the archives and stay up to date with the latest updates by subscribing to our RSS feed.