On
the heels of its recent Chrome 36 software update, Google announced on
its official Chromium blog Friday that the beta of Chrome 37 is now
available for download.
The
new software means that Chrome can now support Microsoft Windows' new
text-rendering API, DirectWrite. The API replaces Graphics Device
Interface (GDI), first developed in the 1980s.
What that means for users: Chrome for Windows will finally — finally! have clear text and clean fonts.
Other
improvements in Chrome 37 include the accruing of the dialog HTML5
element, which allows users to code dialog boxes for web apps and adjust
them with a JavaScript API. The old method, showModalDialog, is now
obsolete.
Perhaps the most obvious change for users is the shift in monospaced fonts from Courier New to the thicker, darker Consolas.
Posted by : Gizmeon
No comments:
Post a Comment