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July Baseline digest: Intl.Locale and rect() cross the line
The edition published on August 10 moves Intl.Locale into newly available — a standard way to parse, modify, and inspect Unicode language and region tags, useful anywhere dates, numbers, and currencies are formatted without an extra library. Array.fromAsync(), which turns asynchronous data streams into an array, and the CSS rect() function, which describes rectangular shapes for clip-path and offset-path far more readably than going through polygon(), both moved to widely available. An updated MDN guide to choosing image formats shipped alongside the digest.
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