Chrome 99: CSS Cascade Layers, a New Picker for Input Elements, and More

There are some exciting new things slated for Chrome version 99 — currently in beta and to become stable on March 1st. Standout features are the shipping of CSS Cascade Layers and the new showPicker() Method on HTMLInputElement Objects. On the Chrome Developers Blog, Una Kravets wrote a post that covers Cascade Layers in detail. …

Chrome 92 — What’s New In DevTools

New in DevTools that ship with Chrome 92 (selection): A new CSS grid editor (pictured above), similar to the Flexbox editor which shipped with DevTools in Chrome 90 Support for const redeclarations in the Console — Oh, didn’t know I needed this! Source order viewer Enhanced CORS debugging support Lighthouse 7.5 [Experimental] Protocol monitor — …

New in Chrome 89

Pete LePage walks us through the additions in Chrome 89. 🤩 I’m honored to have my WebHID Daft Punk Sound Board be featured in the “WebHID, WebNFC, and Web Serial section there. Let’s hope other browser vendors follow soon with top level await, as Chromium is the only browser to support it at the time …

Chrome vs. BlinkMacSystemFont: A Workaround

UPDATE 2020-04-28: Good news everyone! A workaround for this bug has landed in Canary (Chromium 84) and will be merged into the M83 release! The workaround described here still applies for Chromium 81. The problem As detailed before there’s this bug that shipped with Chromium 81 which somehow prevents the font-weight CSS property from being …

Easily link to Text Fragments in Chrome with the “Copy Text Fragment URL” Plugin

One of the additions that shipped in Chrome 80 is the ability to link to Text Fragments. To easily create such links, I stumbled upon the “Copy Text Fragment URL” Plugin which adds an extra option to the context menu. Handy! Makes me wonder why it’s not a default Google Chrome feature. Chrome Web Store: …

Tweet from the Chrome Address Bar by adding a Custom Search Engine

TIL: Chrome allows you to define a Custom Search Engine (CSE) by which you can search sites. The cool part is that you’re not really limited to search only, and that you can abuse these CSEs to become more productive. In this post I’ll show you how to tweet from the Chrome Address Bar. 🦊 …