📃 November 2017 release notes
Newly available
The following features are newly available:
-
Spellcheck:
The
spellcheck
global HTML attribute sets whether the browser may check an element for spelling errors.
New in Firefox
The following features are now available in Firefox:
-
Abortable fetch:
If you construct a fetch request with an
AbortSignal
, you can cancel the request. -
AbortController and AbortSignal:
The
AbortController
andAbortSignal
APIs allow you to cancel an ongoing operation, such as afetch()
request. -
Async iterators and the for await..of loop:
Asynchronous iterator objects, such as those returned by promises or generator functions, are iterable with the
for await .. of
loop. -
Date and time <input> types:
The
<input type="date">
and<input type="time">
HTML elements show date and time pickers. -
Storage manager:
The
navigator.storage
API provides information about the availability and persistence of the data that a site stores on the device, by using APIs such as the Cache API or the IndexedDB API.
New in Firefox for Android
The following features are now available in Firefox for Android:
-
Abortable fetch:
If you construct a fetch request with an
AbortSignal
, you can cancel the request. -
AbortController and AbortSignal:
The
AbortController
andAbortSignal
APIs allow you to cancel an ongoing operation, such as afetch()
request. -
Async iterators and the for await..of loop:
Asynchronous iterator objects, such as those returned by promises or generator functions, are iterable with the
for await .. of
loop. -
Date and time <input> types:
The
<input type="date">
and<input type="time">
HTML elements show date and time pickers. -
Storage manager:
The
navigator.storage
API provides information about the availability and persistence of the data that a site stores on the device, by using APIs such as the Cache API or the IndexedDB API.