The Pointer Lock API just landed in Chrome 22.
Thursday, September 27th
Enabling new classes of applications with Pointer Lock
Wednesday, August 8th
Wednesday, August 1st
Google Chrome Blog: New senses for the web
Google releases a new stable version of Chrome:
Chrome now includes the getUserMedia API, which lets you grant web apps access to your camera and microphone without a plug-in. The getUserMedia API is the first step in WebRTC, a new real-time communications standard which aims to allow high-quality video and audio communication on the web.
Thursday, July 5th
Google I/O 2012 - The Web Can Do That!? Great presention by Eric Bidelman, covering some of my favorite new features in CSS3, some super-interesting bits of HTML5 like <datalist> and the download attribute, and some amazing A/V demos at the end (getUserMedia FTW). A fantastic preview of the next stage of web applications.
(Source: youtube.com)
Wednesday, May 16th
Chromium has added experimental support for the Web Intents API to Chrome stable.
(Source: youtube.com)
Saturday, May 5th
Chrome DevTools Timeline has a new Frame Mode, making it even easier to see where your layout/rendering bottlenecks are. I look forward to even more improvements to this feature soon — it can be a bit vague at the moment, but it has incredibly useful information. Currently only available in Chrome under about:flags.
Wednesday, May 2nd
CSS layout gets smarter with calc()
Didn’t even know about this feature, but it’s brilliant. A quick idea of what you can do:
#bar {
height: calc(10em + 3px);
}
And regarding current support:
The calc() property for lengths is available now in Chrome 19 (Dev channel build) by use of the ’-webkit-calc’ property, in Firefox since version 8 using the ’-moz-calc’ property and in Internet Explorer since version 9 unprefixed.