Chrome 59 update: What's new?
Chrome 59 and its open source variant Chromium has been released for Android and PC, Mac, Linux. Chrome 58, the earlier realise a month back, had much to be excited about. From progressive web apps becoming more immersive to the ;) easter egg when you open 99+ incognito tabs, it was a big hit. Well, nothing much has changed since then but that doesn't mean we don't have something new and exciting.
Among the noticeable new features are the support of Animated PNG and a new Image Capture API
Animated PNG Support
By animated images on a web platform, the first thing that comes to one's mind is GIF. GIFs have been quite popular lately with even getting dedicated apps like Giffy and Tenor to be shared to your social groups.
If you didn't know, Firefox supported Animated PNG since Firefox 3 in 2008. Opera followed footsteps with Opera 10 in 2009, but stopped once it switched to Chromium web engine.
By animated images on a web platform, the first thing that comes to one's mind is GIF. GIFs have been quite popular lately with even getting dedicated apps like Giffy and Tenor to be shared to your social groups.
If you didn't know, Firefox supported Animated PNG since Firefox 3 in 2008. Opera followed footsteps with Opera 10 in 2009, but stopped once it switched to Chromium web engine.
With Animated PNG, which Apple uses as the format for their iMessage, Chrome 59 can now replace GIFs with support for 24-bit messages and 8-bit transparency. Why you ask? aPNG does not compress the real images to a grainy level as we are used to in GIF. But this is at a cost of more data being consumed as they are usually twice the size compared to GIFs.
Image Capture API
We all have faced the issue atleast once where we needed to take a picture via a webpage, but could not resize or edit it. The new Image Capture API on Chrome 59 allows you more control over your camera while dealing with webpages.
Its now easier to take pictures, resize them, and also switch between cameras, all at full resolution!
We all have faced the issue atleast once where we needed to take a picture via a webpage, but could not resize or edit it. The new Image Capture API on Chrome 59 allows you more control over your camera while dealing with webpages.
Its now easier to take pictures, resize them, and also switch between cameras, all at full resolution!
Salient Features
Security issues are now tighter. Google will mark alk HTTP pages as insecure later this year with Chrome 62. iFrame embedded pages cannot send notifications anymore. No more pop up advertisements. Yay!
Also, embedded contents from FTP servers will no longer load. Sub-resources containing embedded credentials are now blocked by default.
Security issues are now tighter. Google will mark alk HTTP pages as insecure later this year with Chrome 62. iFrame embedded pages cannot send notifications anymore. No more pop up advertisements. Yay!
Also, embedded contents from FTP servers will no longer load. Sub-resources containing embedded credentials are now blocked by default.
Other features include Installed Related Apps API in Chrome 59, which can be used by switching a flag. This enables websites to check if their app is installed. Pages no longer modify the HTML5 player with Shadow DOM. Chrome 59 can now run in headless mode, hiding the interface and giving the page an app like feel. Blocking a site more than three times disables its notifications for a week.
The Settings page is now materialistic. Hurrah!!
This covers up the new stuff in Chrome 59 and future versions. Hope you enjoyed it. Stay tuned for more, until then have a nice day. Peace.
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