Sunday, September 18, 2011

New Google Chrome: API Audio, Native Client and fewer bugs in Mac OS

Google two days back released a version of its Chrome browser that brings two novelties, the API for web audio and Native Client. They follow the same tradition that the web giant has maintained in recent times, that seems to Chrome less online support and more features related to Web standards Both were already being tested in the distribution channel beta, but now finally migrated to the stable channel.


The new audio API allows web pages have expanded their audio features. This API can, according to Google, "dynamically position and mix multiple audio channels in a three-dimensional space" and also has a "powerful modular routing system" and a "convolution engine." These last two seem to be quite important given the complicated names in English, so I hope you make good use of them.

The second novelty is called Native Client that allows developers to run applications written in C and C + + directly from Chrome, safely because of its sandbox. For now only the applications available in Chrome Web Store is allowed to run, but Google has pledged to remove this restriction soon.

Besides the two new Google also released a new stable version of Chrome for Mac OS X specific settings which won best to work at the Lion. This version was far better adapted to the scroll bars, brings home to support a full-screen mode and (probably most importantly) had several bugs that left the unstable Chrome tidy.