Extensibility + new HTML and JavaScript APIs for Google Chrome
Today's
new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows
includes a bundle of browser goodness, including
extensions and
new HTML and JavaScript APIs.
Extensions -- previously available on Google Chrome for
Windows
on the beta channel -- and are now
available to all users. Extensions enable you to provide additional functionality not just on
your site, but to bring content and functionality from your site into the browser regardless
of what sites the user has open. Google Chrome extensions use the same multiprocess technology
that makes the browser fast and more secure, so that extensions won't crash or slow down your
browser.
In
addition, we're excited to introduce a number of new HTML and JavaScript APIs in Google
Chrome, including the Web Storage and Web SQL Database APIs, WebSockets, and more. For more
details about these APIs, read further on the
Chromium Blog.
If you have questions
about the extensions APIs, the
extensions discussion group continues to be the best place to get answers.
For the new HTML and JavaScript APIs, check out the newly created
Chromium HTML5 group. And for those of you who are interested in
attending
Google I/O, check out the current list of
Google Chrome sessions.
By Ian Fette,
Product Manager, Google Chrome
