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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1198 (21H2) Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing 21H2 Build 19044.1198 (KB5005101) to the Release Preview Channel. This update will be offered automatically for Windows Insiders already on Windows 10, version 21H2 in the Release Preview Channel. For Insiders not yet on Windows 10, version 21H2 – this update is offered via our “seeker” experience in Windows Update and ONLY to Insiders who were moved from the Beta Channel to the Release Preview Channel because their PC did not meet the hardware requirements for Windows 11. This means these Insiders will need to go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and choose to download and install Windows 10, version 21H2. This update includes the following new features as mentioned in John Cable’s blog post for Windows 10, version 21H2 last month: [ more… ]

Enhancing Inking on the Web Today we are excited to announce the preview availability of an enhanced inking experience in the latest Dev Channel builds of Microsoft Edge. We first introduced these enhancements during Build 2021, showcasing how this new web API, which has been implemented upstream in the Chromium open-source project, greatly reduces the latency between the tip of a physical stylus and ink as it’s drawn on the screen. From our initial experiments on Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds, we’ve measured up to a 240% improvement in latency, which we’ve highlighted in green in the animation below: We invite you to try this new and improved inking experience on the web by downloading the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds and running the code sample presented later in this blog post on the latest Microsoft Edge Dev Channel. [ more… ]

CSS module scripts: `import` stylesheets like JavaScript modules Microsoft and Google have collaborated to bring support for CSS module scripts to Chromium, and they will be available starting in Microsoft Edge and Chrome version 93. The new CSS module scripts feature can be used to load CSS style sheets with import statements just like JavaScript modules. The imported sheets are constructable stylesheets that can be directly applied to documents or shadow roots like this: import sheet from ‘./styles.css’ assert { type: ‘css’ }; document.adoptedStyleSheets = [sheet]; shadowRoot.adoptedStyleSheets = [sheet]; Loading a stylesheet without needing to create a style or link element can be more convenient and even more performant than other ways of importing and applying CSS from JavaScript. CSS module scripts will be available starting in Microsoft Edge and Chrome version 93. Read more about the feature over at web.dev: [ more… ]