The 2 main browsers take one more step towards a cooler web
No more beach holidays, it’s back to school time for the two main browsers on the market, Google Chrome (58.9% market share) and Safari (14.6% market share). The new versions were announced a few days apart.
Mid-August, Apple introduced version 63 of its Technology Preview, a beta version of Safari available to developers. Besides the release of the expected dark mode so that you read our articles more comfortably at night, the focus has been put on animation and 3D. This release adds compatibility to WebGL 2, a version updated by Krhonos Group, the origin of WebGL.
You can find all the release notes on the website of Apple.
Google responds with the release 69 of its famous Google Chrome. Here too, the focus was on the UI / UX with two big changes announced.
The first concerns the design of the browser with the adoption of Material Design on mobile and desktop. Introduced in 2014, Material Design is a set of design rules proposed by Google that apply to the graphical interface of software and applications. Inspired by reality (hence the term Material), you will find all the information about it on the dedicated site.
The second big change, just as important, announce once again the death of Flash, the Adobe format that was an integral part of the Internet in the 2000s. Google Chrome will now systematically ask permission to use Flash each time it restarts, in order to anticipate the end of Flash support by Adobe as early as 2020. Google is therefore taking a further step towards moving from Flash to WebGL, which is the new standard for 3D and interactive online experiences.
Get ready to download it the 4th of September for this new version. You’ll find all the informations on the website of Google.
