Chrome 44 New Features

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.

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Physical Web On Mobile

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