Recent developments in chromium and WebKit in March 14: Multi-tag selection, label title omitted, animation API and new chromium logo

 

A week later, there were 796 changes in chromium (554 submissions) and WebKit (1350 submissions. Highlights include the new logo of chromium, multi-tag selection, an animation API, new CSS direction attributes, and Violet optimization.

Scott Violet released the first feature of the new feature:Multi-label selection. To select only one tag at a time, you can use Shift + Click or Ctrl + Click to select multiple tags. This function also needs to be optimized for better thumbnails when multiple labels are properly displayed and dragged. It is already available in the version of nightlies. You only need to use "-- enable-Multi-tab-selection" for activation.

Another improvement in the chromium label bar is that adjacent labels share a common title prefix. For example, in the "chromium blog ",Share title Scaling. This function shows the relevance between titles, and you can easily find the desired tags. This feature can only support the current version of Windows, and support on other platforms is under development.

Dean Jackson released the first part of a new APIManage animations applied to specific elements. This API is available in chromium and WebKit nightlies versions, and a new method-webkitgetanimations is added to the html dom tree element. It returns the list of currently activated animations like an animation object. Since its availability, it provides access to most CSS animation settings. The play () and pause () methods will be provided in the subsequent patch versions.

Along with the partial implementation of chromium, the first part of HTML5's datatransferitem and datatransferitems interfaces were released as a new feature. Dave Hyatt implementsText direction attribute(Text-orientation), although it is not implemented on Windows. Luiz agstini released the implementation of the <details> and <summary> label rendering sections.

To improve standard consistency, many submissions focus on failures in the CSS 2.1 test suite. Many previous problems have been solved, and the background position analysis component has been rewritten. The: before and: After pseudo elements can also be used in a column of the table. In addition, the color values "Violet-palevioletred" and "semi-purple" are corrected.

The other is not very important, but it must be an interesting improvement: In the WebKit treeBuilt-inJqueryTest suite. Since jquery is widely used, it is a good thing to ensure full compatibility.

Other major improvements last week:

• Chromium has a new logo, which is quite different from the previous one.
• A small change is made for the registerprotocolhandler Implementation of chromium.
• Currently, specific methods can be used to move nodes between the DOM of different documents.
• The JS core corrected three issues related to regular expression prototype and es5 performance optimization.
• Safari on Mac OS X lion can use the AV foundation framework for media replay.
• Soft hyphens can be correctly rendered when the line is broken.
• Pre-rendering experiments are available for approximately 5% of chromium users.
• Welcome to Google Chrome 12. This message was used in chrome 11, which is very bad.
• The search-box extension can now choose how to display Auto completion: Normal, delayed, or never.
• It may be implemented on windows for the P2P interface of chromium.UDP sockets.