New in Chrome 94: Color management for canvas, WebCodecs, WebGPU, and more!

Chrome 94 is rolling out now! The default color space for canvas elements is now formally defined as sRBG, and you can change it to Display P3. There’s a new, low level way to access built in audio and video codecs, important for streaming games, video editors, and such. WebGPU starts its origin trial. And, there’s plenty more!

Pete LePage has all the details about what’s new for developers in Chrome 94!

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[kedevked]

Webgpu has always been my long anticipated feature. Awesome that it is now being shipped to chrome. It feels like the beginning of a new era !!!

[SimonBuchanNz]

Unfortunately scrollbar-gutter got gutted by Apple. Would have been nice to have a standard overflow: overlay on Windows as well, so we can finally have consistent scrollbars across platforms (which is one of the last big pains for layout)

[simioni]

So happy to see that the virtual keyboard API has already been shipped! The default vkeyboard behavior is really wonky on foldables. Finally we can take control! 🥳🎊🎉

[jagalinotube]

is the new draft (09-21-21) supported in the webgpu implementation ?

[daelous]

Awesome, thank you google chrome team.

[razt]

Well, I guess it's time to write some extension to detect mining sites.

[SirusStarTV]

Want to code something with Web Codecs, i always hated how it's hard to use video formats in many programming languages, c# for example. Raw formats like BMP is easy to parse but they aren't usable in the web, they're huge.

[lolerie]

Yeah, ICC WCG for HDR is nice. That does not work in Firefox properly, so nice.

[technikhil]

Damn HTTP 203 has special mention at end. Jake must be too happy I guess.

[joaopauloalbq]

WebGPU finally means video hardware acceleration for Linux?

[YOUTUBEACEHBERDIKARI]

Mantap dan keren google chrome developers

[fun]

Amazing to get to know this, especially on the MOUNTAIN GORILLA Day

Greetings from the pearl of Africa -VISIT UGANDA

[varandpezeshkian]

The link in description is not working.

[RomboutVersluijs]

Why do i get HSTS errors and it states on all sites certificate errors? yesterday was all fine, not sure when it was updated. Noticed this release is from 24 sep. Today 30th this issue started happening. Clear HSTS using tha some weird link doesnt do anything, DNS clear and flush; nothing, only thing which works is setting date back by 1 day?

[serhiimamedov]

Why WebSQL is deprecated? Should IndexedDB be used instead?

[OrPhEeUs]

No mention of the controversial Idle API...

[HolgerNestmann]

Phew I thought indexed db is going to be removed. although having a terrible apo, it allows sharing of data between service worker and the main thread. (as does cache storage).