In May 2015, this setting will be removed and showModalDialog will be completely killed off. Since many enterprise sites rely heavily on showModalDialog, Google has added a temporary Enterprise Policy setting to re-enable it.

Google says it has found less than 0.006 percent of pages use it. First introducted in Internet Explorer 4, the API allows applications to show a dialog.that freezes all other content. Meanwhile, Emil Protalinski notes another ancient Microsoft standard that Chrome deprecated:Ĭhrome 37 will disable support for showModalDialog by default. If you click on the image, you can see the point that the post was actually trying to make. The image in the blog post got stretched, so that both look like poo. users should begin seeing better-looking fonts and increased rendering performance as we roll out DirectWrite, with no changes required by web developers. Graphics Device Interface (GDI).reflects the engineering tradeoffs of that time, particularly for slower, lower-resolution machines. The bug to get Chrome to support DirectWrite was filed in October 2009Ĭhrome 37 Beta.is due to graduate to the most-heavily used Stable channel in around six weeks. previously rendered text with which dates back to the mid-1980s.

It's taken four and a half years but the engineering gurus.have finally improved how the browser renders text on Windows. MOREĪnd Seth Rosenblatt sharpens up the reporting: Users have long asked Google to make this switch, but the company says that it 'required extensive re-architecting and streamlining.' also now supports subpixel font scaling, which enables smooth animations of text between font sizes, and better support for touch events. Google released the latest beta version of its Chrome browser Windows fonts will now look better.because now supports Microsoft’s DirectWrite API. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers initially eulogize: GDI API RIP.

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