Chrome 44 is now in stable channel and there are many updates and improvements:
- Improvements to Notifications API and promoted add to homescreen.
- The Push API has undergone several minor breaking changes in order to keep up to date with the evolving specification.
- A new implementation of multi-column layout, solving historic issues with incorrect column balancing.
- Developers should now use the scroll attributes of document.scrollingElement instead of document.body as the latter has several well known issues.
- ES6 extended Unicode escape sequences allow developers to use the extended set of Unicode characters in JavaScript string literals, where previously characters whose escape sequences contain more than four hexadecimal values were unable to be denoted.
- What a quick summary? you got it all in under 4 min video!
And there are a lots of other improvements and security fixes.
What is hot and new on the web?
- A quick intro to the Physical Web – Learn what can be done on the physical web and how you can implement it.
- Why you should lie to users in the name of performance?
- The Web Bluetooth API is coming.
- Create offline-first Polymer apps without writing a single line of JavaScript.
- How to use the new Polymer starter kit – An opinionated scaffold for building Polymer apps
- Replacing Flash: Adaptive Streaming and DRM in HTML5
- GarageBand is great but SoundTrap is a collaborative music app for everyone
- Capture a canvas to a MediaStream with captureStream() in Firefox 41.
Short and sweet. Be strong.
…and one more thing, as Chrome Beta 45 is out and its full with ES2015 cool features.
Ido Green 