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Uncover a few of the attention-grabbing options which have landed in steady and beta
internet browsers throughout December 2024.

Revealed: December 18, 2024

Steady browser releases

In December 2024 the one browser to launch a brand new steady model was Safari with Safari 18.2. This
put up appears to be like on the new options added to the net platform.

Baseline Newly accessible options in Safari 18.2

This launch helps spherical out Baseline 2024 with a handful of options changing into Newly accessible.

Web page setup with @web page

The
@web page at-rule permits you to dimensions and margins for content material reminiscent of
printed paperwork, ebooks, or slides.

The ruby-align and ruby-position CSS properties

The
ruby-align and
ruby-position properties allow you to management how
ruby textual content is positioned and aligned inside its container.

Be taught extra in
Line-breakable <ruby> and CSS ruby-align property.

Model scrollbars

With the CSS
scrollbar-gutter and
scrollbar-width properties now
Baseline Newly accessible, you’ll be able to
customise the looks of scrollbars in your internet app.

::target-text pseudo-element

The ::target-text
pseudo-element permits you to model textual content highlighted by a
URL textual content fragment. Now you can select methods to spotlight the textual content to raised
draw consideration to it.

WebAssembly rubbish assortment and tail name optimization

Safari 18.2 consists of assist for these WebAssembly (Wasm) options,
bringing them to Baseline Newly accessible.

You possibly can study extra about WebAssembly rubbish assortment in
WebAssembly Rubbish Assortment (WasmGC) now enabled by default in Chrome,
and examine why
Google Sheets ported its calculation employee from JavaScript to WasmGC.

Cross-document view transitions

Safari 18.2 consists of assist for cross-document view transitions,
together with view transition lessons and kinds, and assist for the
pageswap and pagereveal occasions.

Uint8Array strategies

Safari 18.2 additionally consists of the brand new Uint8Array strategies to ease conversions
between base64- and hex-encoded strings and byte arrays:

• Uint8Array.fromBase64() and Uint8Array.fromHex()
• Uint8Array.prototype.setFromBase64() and Uint8Array.prototype.setFromHex()
• Uint8Array.prototype.toBase64() and Uint8Array.prototype.toHex()

Beta browser releases

This month we do not have new options in beta to announce,
as a result of finish of yr.
The
Safari 18.3
beta is presently bug fixes, and
Firefox 134,
and
Chrome 132
are nonetheless ongoing from final month.

We’ll be again subsequent yr to let you already know what’s touchdown on the internet platform in
January 2025!