Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.162.0. Thanks to work done in WebKit, Google Chrome can use web fonts (read more about it here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten ), including dynamic fonts for complex scripts. If you are a web developer this is huge news for you.

New features:
  • Web Font support, including dynamic and complex scripts
  • http://crbug.com/6688 Command line switch for the location of the disk cache.
Known Issues:
Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.


Jonathan Conradt
Engineering Program Manager
Mountain View, CA