10. Canada & Sweden
Image credits: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Canada.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Sweden.svg
11. How Chrome is trying to improve
predictability for developers
How we work with other
browsers to make this better
How web developers can help
improve the platform
Image credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/toddle_email_newsletters/15575925446
14. Fight the platform less
Reduce the need for:
Browser-specific code paths
Workarounds for regressions
Polyfills for inconsistencies between APIs
Shims that smooth over lacking interoperability
15. Break websites less
Ship no accidental regressions.
Only deprecate features when we understand
the cost and know it’s worth it.
Be transparent about interventions, and give
developers a smooth migration path.
Image credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/4517822872/
16. Fail fast and obviously
Decrease the number of times a developer
stares at a blank screen or searches aimlessly
for help.
Image credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnath/7356295658
22. Cross-browser collaboration
By Oregon Department of Transportation (Collaboration Uploaded by AlbertHerring)
[CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
24. We’ve gotten better at listening
to you.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_garland/4957441955
Listening to web developers
25. The Web is a
commons
It thrives on collaboration and competition
Good communication between
stakeholders is critical
By Daniel Schwen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
26. Blink bugs!
The best way to discuss where chromium
should improve for web developers
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/12852086543
27. Blink bugs over time
0
550
1100
1650
2200Jan
2014
Apr
July
O
ct
Jan
2015
Apr
July
O
ct
Jan
2016
Apr
July
O
ct
Opened Closed (not archived)
28. External blink bug stats for September
Total external 300 (28% of total)
Triaged 93%
Resolved 62%
Fix landed 16%
30. 15% of the top 60 fixed this year!
• Ship MediaRecorder
(#262211, 1822 stars)
Encoding audio and video streams
• Ship Pointer Events
(#471824, 1027 stars)
New input API that unifies mouse,
touch and stylus
• Smooth Scrolling
(#575, 576 stars)
Animate scrolls from keyboard / clicky
mouse
• Support for the Tifinagh language
(#569421, 398 stars)
Used in northern Africa
• Don't fire click for middle button
(#255, 190 stars)
Replaced by new “auxclick” event
• Support for CSS hyphens property
(#605840, 179 stars)
Used to enable or disable hyphenation
• Started: Animated PNG (#437662, 884 stars)
46. Interventions
• Minimally breaks existing behavior
• For substantial user benefit
• Should be
• Predictable
• Avoidable
• Transparent
• Justified by data
47. Example intervention: throttled rendering
• Don’t run rendering pipeline for
off-screen cross-origin iframe
• Shipped in Chrome 52
• Substantial power improvements
• No reports of broken sites
48. Example intervention: throttled rendering
• Don’t run rendering pipeline for
off-screen cross-origin iframe
• Shipped in Chrome 52
• Substantial power improvements
• No reports of broken sites
72. Take aways
We’re trying to treat the web as a single platform
Test on beta and file bugs
Star the bugs / features you care about
Visit /feedback, try the Browser Bug Searcher
Get involved - this is your web!