On the first day of December, Gooogle decided that it's time for the popular Chrome web browser to get a new release, so it promoted Chrome 55 to the stable channel for all supported platforms, including Linux, Mac, and Windows.After playing it safe in the Beta channel since the 21st of October 2016, Chrome 55 is finally here with its unified input handling support by dispatching PointerEvents, which could lead to a more responsive web browsing as pages won't block scrolling by default. Additionally, passive event listeners can be used for TouchEvent on mobile devices.
"Chrome also now supports two new ways to respond to input. The touch-action CSS property enables sites to react to gestures such as panning. For mouse buttons, the new auxclick input event type allows sites to manage the click behavior of non-primary buttons," said Dan Ehrenberg, System Software Engineer, Chrome OS team.
Chrome now supports the async and await JavaScript keywords
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