Chrome 19 features support for Harmony, a project of the ECMA Committee working on a new version of javascript. Google has the Harmony support included in its V8 javascriptengine.
Harmony, in term, the current javascript 5.1-by default, the follow-up. A release may be found at the end of this year. According to Andreas Rossberg and Michael Starzinger, software developers at Google, will Harmony the most comprehensive update of javascript, which is decided to give support in the V8 javascriptengine of Chrome.
In the current development version Chrome 19, available in the dev channel, is the updated V8 engine is already test. Must first have the flag ‘experimental javascript features” are activated in the Chrome settings. Among other things, the Harmony features ‘lexical scoping’, ‘collections’, ‘weak maps’ and ‘proxies’ are available. In the future, should there still new javascriptfuncties recover.
In the bètakanaal is now Chrome 18 is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This version provides gpu acceleration for 2d canvas-tekenacties. Also supports Chrome 18 and older graphics cards through the use of SwiftShader, a software rasterizer of the company TransGaming.