Chrome 53 Beta Brings Shadow DOM, Deprecates HTTP/0.9

Written by Michael Larabel in Google on 8 August 2016 at 02:22 PM EDT. 17 Comments
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Google engineers today put out the first public beta of the upcoming Chrome/Chromium 53 web-browser update.

Chrome 53 brings support for version one of the Shadow DOM API, introduces a PaymentRequest API, Chrome on Android can now auto-play muted videos, notification improvements, experimental work on the Web Bluetooth API, support for the text-size-adjust property, deprecating HTTP/0.9 in favor of HTTP/1.0, and a variety of other improvements.

Much more information on the features present in the Chrome 53 beta can be found via the Chromium.org blog.
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