Web platform features explorer

📃 May 2014 release notes

New in Chrome

The following features are now available in Chrome:

  • background-blend-mode: The background-blend-mode CSS property blends an element's background image and background color using blend modes like multiply, difference, or color.
  • Font loading: The document.fonts API dynamically loads custom fonts and tracks when fonts are loading or ready to use.
  • Gamepad: The navigator.getGamepads() API accesses and responds to signals from game controllers.
  • OfflineAudioContext: The OfflineAudioContext API represents an audio processing graph that writes to an AudioBuffer instead of an output device.
  • Web Audio: The Web Audio API creates graphs of audio nodes that handle sound inputs, synthesize sounds, apply effects, create visualizations, and output to audio devices.

New in Chrome Android

The following features are now available in Chrome Android:

  • Font loading: The document.fonts API dynamically loads custom fonts and tracks when fonts are loading or ready to use.
  • Gamepad: The navigator.getGamepads() API accesses and responds to signals from game controllers.
  • OfflineAudioContext: The OfflineAudioContext API represents an audio processing graph that writes to an AudioBuffer instead of an output device.
  • Web Audio: The Web Audio API creates graphs of audio nodes that handle sound inputs, synthesize sounds, apply effects, create visualizations, and output to audio devices.