Web platform features explorer

📃 October 2022 release notes

Newly available

The following features are newly available:

  • Grid animation: Grid animation allows you to animate the grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows CSS properties.
  • ic unit: The CSS ic unit corresponds to the width of CJK ideographic characters.

Widely available

The following features are now widely available:

  • image-orientation: The image-orientation CSS property corrects the rotation of an image using the image's metadata, such as EXIF.

New in Chrome

The following features are now available in Chrome:

  • Raw camera access for WebXR: The XRView.camera property provides direct access to pose-synchronized camera images within a WebXR session.

New in Chrome Android

The following features are now available in Chrome Android:

  • Raw camera access for WebXR: The XRView.camera property provides direct access to pose-synchronized camera images within a WebXR session.

New in Edge

The following features are now available in Edge:

  • Hyphenate character: The hyphenate-character CSS property sets the character or string to use at the end of a line before a line break.
  • WebDriver BiDi: WebDriver BiDi is a bidirectional protocol that allows a WebDriver client and a browser to communicate with each other.
  • Raw camera access for WebXR: The XRView.camera property provides direct access to pose-synchronized camera images within a WebXR session.

New in Firefox

The following features are now available in Firefox:

  • checkVisibility(): The checkVisibility() method checks if an element is potentially visible, with optional parameters for the kinds of visibility to check. For example, it checks whether the element has the style display: none, but can also check for visibility: hidden.

New in Firefox for Android

The following features are now available in Firefox for Android:

  • checkVisibility(): The checkVisibility() method checks if an element is potentially visible, with optional parameters for the kinds of visibility to check. For example, it checks whether the element has the style display: none, but can also check for visibility: hidden.

New in Safari

The following features are now available in Safari:

  • Scroll to text fragment: Text fragments are URL fragments on the form #:~:text=snippet and link to a snippet of text within a page. The browser may scroll, highlight, or otherwise bring that text to the reader's attention.

New in Safari on iOS

The following features are now available in Safari on iOS:

  • Scroll to text fragment: Text fragments are URL fragments on the form #:~:text=snippet and link to a snippet of text within a page. The browser may scroll, highlight, or otherwise bring that text to the reader's attention.