📃 January 2016 release notes
New in Chrome
The following features are now available in Chrome:
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font-feature-settings:
The
font-feature-settingsCSS property sets low-level OpenType feature tags for a font. When possible, usefont-variantinstead. -
Layout direction override:
The
unicode-bidianddirectionCSS properties override the Unicode layout algorithm. They are intended for Document Type Definition (DTD) designers. For HTML documents, you should use thedirglobal HTML attribute and<bdo>HTML element instead. -
text-combine-upright:
The
text-combine-uprightCSS property displays multiple characters in the space of a single character in vertical text. This is used in East Asian documents to display Latin-based strings such as components of a date or letters of an initialism. -
text-orientation:
The
text-orientationCSS property sets the how text is typeset within a line when the writing mode is vertical. -
writing-mode:
The
writing-modeCSS property sets whether text is laid out horizontally or vertically, and left to right, or right to left.
New in Chrome Android
The following features are now available in Chrome Android:
-
font-feature-settings:
The
font-feature-settingsCSS property sets low-level OpenType feature tags for a font. When possible, usefont-variantinstead. -
Layout direction override:
The
unicode-bidianddirectionCSS properties override the Unicode layout algorithm. They are intended for Document Type Definition (DTD) designers. For HTML documents, you should use thedirglobal HTML attribute and<bdo>HTML element instead. -
text-combine-upright:
The
text-combine-uprightCSS property displays multiple characters in the space of a single character in vertical text. This is used in East Asian documents to display Latin-based strings such as components of a date or letters of an initialism. -
text-orientation:
The
text-orientationCSS property sets the how text is typeset within a line when the writing mode is vertical. -
writing-mode:
The
writing-modeCSS property sets whether text is laid out horizontally or vertically, and left to right, or right to left.
New in Firefox
The following features are now available in Firefox:
- Brotli compression: Brotli is a lossless data compression algorithm. When used as a content encoding, it often provides better compression than gzip.
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Let and const:
The
letandconstdeclarations define block-scoped variables. - Push messages: The Push API subscribes to and receives server-initiated messages. Subscribers receive pushed messages in the background, even after periods inactive or offline.
- Service workers: The service worker of a website is a script that runs in its own thread and which acts as local proxy that intercepts network requests from the website. Use a service worker to implement advanced caching strategies, offline support, background tasks, or push notification support on your website.
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WebRTC statistics:
The
RTCPeerConnection.getStats(),RTCRtpSender.getStats(), andRTCRtpReceiver.getStats()methods return detailed information about the status, performance, network, and media for a given WebRTC connection.
New in Firefox for Android
The following features are now available in Firefox for Android:
- Brotli compression: Brotli is a lossless data compression algorithm. When used as a content encoding, it often provides better compression than gzip.
-
Let and const:
The
letandconstdeclarations define block-scoped variables. - Service workers: The service worker of a website is a script that runs in its own thread and which acts as local proxy that intercepts network requests from the website. Use a service worker to implement advanced caching strategies, offline support, background tasks, or push notification support on your website.
-
WebRTC statistics:
The
RTCPeerConnection.getStats(),RTCRtpSender.getStats(), andRTCRtpReceiver.getStats()methods return detailed information about the status, performance, network, and media for a given WebRTC connection.