Feb 02, 2022 11:00:00

Google Chrome 98 stable release with the addition of the font 'COLR v1' that can display pictograms neatly in a small capacity

Version 98.0.4758.81, the latest stable version of the web browser ' Google Chrome', has been released. In addition to supporting 'COLRv1' that can display color fonts such as emojis beautifully, 'auto-dark themes' that automatically puts sites that do not support dark mode into dark mode are being tested.

New in Chrome 98 --Chrome Developers

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-98/

New in Chrome 98: Per-element opt-out for auto-dark, COLRv1, and more! --YouTube


◆ Supports color font 'COLRv1 font' that can be displayed neatly with a small amount of data
Since a normal font only specifies 'which pixel to paint with', it is possible to paint with a single color using CSS, but it is not possible to combine multiple colors. Therefore, if you need a font that uses multiple colors such as pictograms, you have to use an image or a bitmap-based color font, and you have to worry about the file size and bleeding when enlarging. Has been done.

From Chrome 98, a new

font called COLRv1 is supported. COLRv1 supports color gradation, composition, mixing, etc. in addition to the expressive power of SVG. It is said that the amount of data can be kept much smaller than the conventional bitmap-based font, and while the bitmap version is 9MB in the build of Noto Emoji , COLRv1 can be reduced to 1.89MB by applying woff2 compression. It was said that.

It also states that you can create your own COLRv1 font from SVG by using the nanoemoji font compiler.

◆ Added opt-out option to Android 'auto-dark themes' test
'Auto-dark themes ', which automatically puts sites that do not support dark mode into dark mode, has appeared in the origin trial on Android from Chrome 96, and testing is in progress. Chrome 98 has added a way to exclude some pages and some parts from the Auto Dark theme.

◆ Other updates
・ CORS will be applied to access to private networks
CORS preflight requests are now sent when a website makes a request to a private IP address or localhost. Requests will no longer be made without explicit permission from the server, mitigating cross-site request forgery attacks within private networks such as routers.

Chrome 98 also contains 27 security bug fixes .