Chrome news — Web Standards

September 10
What’s new in Chrome 153
Capability elements, single-axis scroll containers, and joint iteration.
August 31
Highlighting a range of text inside a form field
The Custom Highlight API finally reaches form controls thanks to OpaqueRange in Chromium 152.
August 27
What’s new in Chrome 152
Pseudo-element events, device performance tiers, connection allowlists, and relative alpha.
August 26
Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance
Five ways to avoid an orphaned item on the last flex line, from container queries to one property.
August 24
A look at the <geolocation> HTML element and how it works
Chrome 144 ships a permission-friendly element with autolocate, watch, and a :granted pseudo-class.
August 20
Field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel
An interactive walkthrough of the waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.
July 29
What’s new in Chrome 151
Media capture element, declarative slot assignment, and soft-navigation metrics.
July 2
What’s new in Chrome 150
System accent colors, polygon rounding, animatable zoom, url() modifiers, and text-fit.
June 4
What’s new in Chrome 149
CSS gap decorations, shape-outside functions, SVG path-length, crisp-edges, and back/forward cache for WebSocket.
May 15
Browsers treat big sites differently
How Safari and Firefox quietly patch the web to keep big sites working.
May 6
What’s new in Chrome 148
Name-only container queries, at-rule() in @supports, lazy <video> and <audio>, Prompt API, and more.
April 30
The web is fun again: first experiments with HTML in <canvas>
An experimental Chrome API that draws real HTML into <canvas>, with pixel and shader effects.