Chromium Blog: November 2011
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These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.
Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.
The goal is to
fix all broken links on the web .
Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.
A daily crawl of more than 200,000 home pages of news sites, including the pages linked from those home pages. Site list provided by
The GDELT Project
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20181021042413/https://blog.chromium.org/2011/11/
In March of last year we introduced ANGLE as the engine that would power Chrome's GPU rendering on Windows. At the time it was announced, ANGLE only supported a subset of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API. Thanks to continued work from TransGaming, in collaboration with Google engineers and other contributors, ANGLE has reached an important milestone: It now passes the rigorous OpenGL ES 2.0 test suite and ANGLE version 1.0 has been certified as a compliant GL ES 2.0 implementation. This is a major step forward for the project, and a major event for OpenGL ES support on Windows.MapsGL . We hope WebGL developers and implementors will continue to join us in making ANGLE, and the open web platform, successful.Posted by Vangelis Kokkevis, Software Engineer
Today we are announcing the release of Chrome’s new incremental garbage collector (GC) which dramatically improves interactive performance of web apps and HTML5 games.huge progress improving peak performance of web apps. With the advent of technologies like WebGL we’re seeing the emergence of highly interactive and graphically intensive apps, such as the new version of Google Maps , new games and demos . But with these new uses comes a need for better interactive performance in JavaScript.stress test for interactive performance. In our testing the maximum time to render a frame including pause time is reduced from 272ms to 50ms.dev channel .Posted by Vyacheslav Egorov and Erik Corry, Software Engineers
In September 2010 we announced the WebP image format with lossy compression. WebP was proposed as an alternative to JPEG, with 25–34% better compression compared to JPEG images at equivalent SSIM index. We received lots of feedback, and have been busy improving the format. Last month we announced WebP support for animation, ICC profile, XMP metadata and tiling. Today, we introduce a new mode in WebP to compress images losslessly, and support for transparency – also known as alpha channel – in both the lossless and lossy modes.New lossless mode 28% reduction in size compared to PNGs that are re-compressed with pngcrush and pngout. Smaller images on the page mean faster page loads.New transparency mode 22% bytes over lossy (quality 90) WebP encoding. Smaller alpha overhead means richer images on webpages.here and sample images in the WebP-Gallery . The bit stream specification has not been finalized, and the encoding and decoding implementations have not yet been optimized for processing speed. We encourage you to try it out on your favorite set of images, check out the code , and provide feedback . We hope WebP will now handle all your needs for web images, and we're working to get WebP supported in more browsers.Posted by Jyrki Alakuijala, Vikas Arora, and Urvang Joshi, Software Engineers
