Chromium Blog: March 2014
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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/20181021045219/https://blog.chromium.org/2014/03/
The WebP team at Google focuses on making the web better through smaller, faster-loading images. We’ve seen that WebP compares favorably with other contemporary image formats, but our team has been hard at work to make WebP even faster and more capable. A few months ago, we added support for animated WebP images to Chrome, making WebP the first unified format that can address the key use cases of JPEG, PNG and GIF files. The recent release of libwebp 0.4.0 , currently in Chrome’s Beta channel, is a culmination of numerous encoder and decoder optimizations that make encoding lossless images twice as fast, and decrease lossless decode time by 25%.
online store , redesigned mid-last year, replaced png images with lossless WebP, reducing image file sizes by nearly 35%. Another major WebP rollout is currently in progress: YouTube video thumbnails are starting to be served in WebP with initial results indicating up to a 10% reduction in page load time.
Data Compression Proxy , which transcodes images to WebP on the fly in order to deliver image compression of over 60%.
CDNs and accept content negotiation make it easier than ever to enable wide scale, seamless delivery of WebP images to Chrome users. To find out more, visit the WebP developer site or reach out to us using our public discussion group .
Browser settings hijacking continues to be a top issue for Chrome users, particularly on Windows. A user’s start page, home page and default search engine are critical parts of their Chrome experience, so we are creating an extension-based Settings API for Chrome on Windows to ensure all users have notice and control over any settings changes that take place in their browser. We expect to release this API to the Stable channel in May, after which it will be the only way for developers to make programmatic settings changes in Chrome on Windows. The API is available now on the Windows Dev channel.
new API now and send us your feedback .
Update May 16, 2014: We won't be restricting other methods of changing settings until Chrome 36 which should be released around mid-July. This should give you another full release cycle to switch over to the new API.
As a developer, you should spend as much of your development time as possible creating great content and services — not managing overhead. Today we're announcing new tools and services in the Chrome Web Store that make it easier to automate the publish process and monetize all of your Chrome Web Store items.
Hosted Apps
Packaged Apps
Extensions
Themes
Free trial
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Paid up-front
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Subscription
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In-app payments (IAP)
Google Wallet for Digital Goods
CWS Managed IAP new!
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Managed In-App Payments feature simplifies the developer experience of our previous solution and expands it to extensions. You can now create and manage all of your in-app products directly in the developer dashboard instead of having to embed or dynamically generate and serve a payment token for each sale. You can enable or disable products, provide localized descriptions, set prices for different regions and the Chrome Web Store manages the licensing.
Free Trial feature, which is now available for Chrome Packaged Apps and Extensions, allows a developer to specify that an item can be used for a limited time before it must be purchased. This gives users the flexibility to try paid items before deciding to buy them.
In addition to making it easier to monetize your Web Store items, we have now made it easier to publish them. Our Chrome Web Store API has been expanded to allow developers to programmatically create, update and publish items in the Web Store. If you have an automated build and deployment process, we hope you will be able to use this API to integrate the Web Store publishing flow into your existing process.
Stack Overflow , our G+ Developers page , or our developer forum .
