Chrome For iOS Adds Swipe Navigation

Now, when you swipe left or right in Chrome you’ll navigate tabs instead of switching tabs.

Google’s example for how this would work shows an iOS user purchasing time on a parking meter just using Chrome.

What this means for Physical Web is better visibility and increased potential for adoption. The new Chrome 44 for iOS has incorporated the said open source project into the Chrome Today widget, which lets users to access such on-demand list of web contents that relevant and functional in their surroundings. Physical Web, though, takes advantage of Eddystone-URL, a language that Google’s Eddystone beacon technology can send information to end-user devices in.

“The new Chrome for iOS is an early exploration in enabling users to access the Physical Web in their day-to-day mobile experiences”, said Jake Leichtling, a Google Physical Web Explorer. It would be a pain to have a multitude of apps for interacting with all the smart devices threatening to come into your life over the next few years.

The Physical Web is neat, but the most immediately usable part of the update is the ability to move through a web page using horizontal swipes instead of the forward and back buttons. Furthermore, each new bug that is reported through the bounty program is one less headache to worry about should a vulnerability get exploited for nefarious purposes. This appears to be a special gesture built into the edges of Chrome that allows you to go back or forward a page.

At long last, Google has updated Chrome for iOS with support for the mobile operating system’s standard swipe-based navigation scheme.