Google releases Chrome 37 stable with DirectWrite support for high DPI display
Available in beta since last July 17, Chrome 37 has reached full maturity on Tuesday for Windows, OS X and Linux.
This is a release widely expected especially for Windows users, since they make the transition to DirectWrite, an API for text rendering for Windows that allows you to play in a crisp character also monitor high DPI.
Up to version 36, Chrome was using the old GDI (Graphics Device Interface) for the reproduction of texts in web pages, with a significant impact on the quality of the characters than other web browsers like Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, which has long had updated with support for the latest API available since Windows Vista.
It is a change long-awaited by the users of Google’s browser, which ” required a restructuring of Engine Extended font rendering in Chrome “, in the words of the company. The support DirectWrite will not only play with some more defined font settings in Windows, but also superior performance without the need to modify the structure of web sites.
It also changes the interface of the manager password is deleted and the request log-in into your browser to download the Chrome app. With Chrome 37 is now possible to automatically load web pages open to reconnect to the Internet and there are of course the news to developers with new APIs, support for new HTML features and the usual improvements in stability and performance.
Chrome 37 will disable the support function showModalDialog introduced in Internet Explorer 4, an API that allows the display of a dialog HTML content, stopping all other content. A function that is used only 0.006% of the pages on the web and that, according to Google, compromises the user experience of the web as seen by the user of today and making it more complicated to implement other more modern features.
Since it is a feature still used by some enterprise sites, Google has added a specific setting to re-enable it, giving web developers time until the month of May 2015, the date on which the feature will be completely removed from the browser.
