Chromium Blog: October 2014

Learning Statistics with Privacy, aided by the Flip of a Coin

Thursday, October 30, 2014

[Cross-posted on the Google Research Blog and the Google Online Security Blog]protect our users' security and privacyrandomized responsedifferential privacystrongest form of privacyintense research in academiaon the Internet, nobody should know you’re a dogunwanted softwarehijackingopen-source projectreportACM Conference on Computer and Communications Securityfeedbackrappor-discuss@googlegroups.com

Noto on ChromeOS: No More “Tofu”

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Google released Noto Sans CJK

Pan-CJK: Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, all in a single font.

Seven weights: Thin, Light, DemiLight, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black. ChromeOS has default support for Regular and Bold, with more coming soon.

Free and open source: Freely available for everyone under the Apache License, v2.0.

Comprehensive character coverage: Covers all the CJK Ideographs in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane and a few hundred Ideographs in Unicode Plane 2. Also covered are over twelve thousand Korean Hangul characters with full support for Old Hangul. The total number of glyphs in each font instance is exactly 65,536, the maximum number of glyphs allowed by the OpenType font specification.

Region-appropriate glyph forms: CJK-shared ideographic characters follow region writing conventions to look appropriate to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean users.

Harmony: Noto Sans CJK and all other members of the Noto family are visually compatible with Noto Sans for English, so that text mixing English with another language looks harmonious.

Google Fonts: Early Access @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/earlyaccess/notosansjapanese.css); body {

font-family: Arial, 'Noto Sans Japanese', sans-serif;

}Noto homepage

Chrome 39 Beta: JS Generators, Animation Playback Control, and the WebApp Manifest

Thursday, October 9, 2014

BetaJavaScript Generatorsless than straightforwardread more about themsee them in actionWeb Animation Playback ControlWeb Animationsplay()pause()reverse()animations that can react in real time to user inputWeb Application Manifest<meta><link>extra bits on the critical pathManifestsadd to homescreensee how it works todayOther updates in this release

The Beacon API enables developers to queue asynchronous network requests that will be sent, regardless of whether the user navigates to a new page

Scroll offsets (scrollTop, scrollLeft) now return high-precision fractional values in preparation for high-DPI support

XMLHttpRequest progress event properties position and totalSize are now deprecated in favor of the loaded and total properties

chromestatus.com/features+Google Chrome Developers

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Learning Statistics with Privacy, aided by the Flip of a Coin

Noto on ChromeOS: No More “Tofu”

Chrome 39 Beta: JS Generators, Animation Playback Control, and the WebApp Manifest

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