Find & Replace, a Slider’s Tick Marks and Image Orientation

Published on July 24th, 2012 in Google Chrome, Last Week, tech, WebKit. Version: Chrome 22

Last week, WebKit received 621 commits whereas Chromium received 810, totaling up to 1,431. They were made by 373 different authors, and include a change adding search and replace to Web Inspector.

Find and replace functionality for source files has been added to Web Inspector, after less than a day of being experimental. Furthermore, an icon has been added for pausing JavaScript debugging.

The top property on the window object no longer is replaceable. It’s now possible to apply Shadow DOM to image elements, invalid script-nonce directives for Content Security Policy will cause WebKit to block script execution and the calculation for serializing CSS rgba() functions has been corrected.

Sliders can now have tick marks painted if they have an associated datalist, and behavior of negative values for text-indent has been aligned with CSS 2.1. As for experimental work, a compile time flag and parsing support for the image-orientation CSS property have landed. Initial support for positioning grid items by their row and column index is now available as well, and displaying dialogs will now take the open attribute into account.

Other changes which occurred last week:

Adobe’s Web Platform Team blog has been added to Planet WebKit.
Registering protocol handlers is now possible on the BlackBerry port.
The GTK port has enabled compile-time support for the MHTML file format.
The Qt port has enabled support for CSS Shaders in software-rendering mode.
Chromium now compiles in support for CSS Variables, but still disables it during runtime.
Value-less submit buttons won’t show up as blank anymore for people relying on accessibility.
A hyphenator has been added to the Chromium project.
Chrome to Mobile support for Chrome on iOS devices has been added.
Stored favicons can now be imported from Internet Explorer’s databases.
The Font Settings Extension API no longer is experimental.
Support for playing encrypted WebM files has been added to Chromium.

That’s it again, thanks for reading.

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Hi Peter,

Do you have any idea what this “The Font Settings Extension API” is supposed to do. I have tried reading about it but I cannot grasp what it does. Any info would be appreciated.

Brad

Hi Brad. Documentation is available on this page: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.fontSettings.html

In short, it provides an API-based replacement for the font settings as are available in Chrome’s settings (chrome://settings -> advanced settings -> web contents -> font settings). A font’s script related to the kind of language, in this case.