Best of Google Chrome — May 2025
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Enhancements to the <permission> element
The <permission> HTML element in Chrome has been enhanced for better user experience in managing permissions within web applications. These upgrades include content support for fallback UX, extended programmatic feature detection, updated event names, and impending icon support. These improvements allow for smoother integration and graceful degradation across different browsers, enhancing the platform's versatility, including Android and geolocation capabilities.
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What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 137)
Chrome 137 introduces several updates and features to WebGPU, including the use of GPUTextureView for externalTexture binding, allowing buffer copies without offsets and sizes, and enhancements to WGSL workgroupUniformLoad. It also highlights changes in GPUAdapterInfo attributes and the removal of some experimental options. Dawn updates improve WebGPU development with new bindings and compatibility improvements.