A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Yesterday, Safari 15.4 got released, and it contains a ton of good stuff that we’ve seen land in the Technology Previews before. With over 70 additions to WebKit, Safari 15.4 is packed with new web technologies, updates, and fixes. We’ve assembled a huge release as part of our commitment to web developers, and the people …
There’s a pretty nasty exploit in Safari 15, where sites/tabs that interact with an IndexedDB database leak that name to other tabs. In Safari 15 on macOS, and in all browsers on iOS and iPadOS 15, the IndexedDB API is violating the same-origin policy. Every time a website interacts with a database, a new (empty) …
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Rik Schennink: If we show a modal on iOS we need to prevent events inside the modal from interacting with the page behind the modal. On a previous episode of “Fun with Safari” we could use preventDefault() on the touchmove event but on iOS 15 that no longer works. Here we go. The solution lies …
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If you’re looking for a technical roundup of what’s new in Safari 15, head over to the WebKit blog With the release of Safari 15 for macOS Monterey, iPadOS 15, iOS 15, and watchOS, as well as macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina, WebKit brings significant advancements in privacy and security, improved interoperability, and a …
Quickly view the HTML for a given page in Safari on iOS/iPadOS 15. Customizable, beautiful, easy to use, and you can tweak the page too! When tapping the “Edit” button it activates contenteditable on the page. Costs $0.99. Achoo HTML Viewer → If you don’t want to buy this extension, or are not using Safari …
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Niels Leenheer also shares his views on the whole “all browsers on iOS are WebKit because Apple says it needs to be”-thing: Apple requires browsers to use WebKit. In fact, it must use the system-provided WebKit framework. Even though WebKit is open-source, you can’t modify or improve that version and use that in your app. …
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Jon Henshaw, writing for Coywolf: WebKit added support for the AVIF image format in April 2021, but it’s still unavailable in Safari. Its absence is because Apple chose an unconventional method for decoding images in its browser. Long story short: Safari does not decode images using WebKit — its underlying rendering engine — but delegates …
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Perry Sun: Safari is very good web browser, delivering fast performance and solid privacy features. But at the same time, the lack of support for key web technologies and APIs has been both perplexing and annoying at the same time. The enormous popularity of iOS makes it all the more annoying that Apple continues to …
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In this video from the most recent WWDC, Jen Simmons (Web Technologies Evangelist) and Myles Maxfield (Safari and WebKit Engineer) introduce Safari 15. Meet Safari 15: redesigned and ready to help people explore the web. Discover how you can approach designing websites and apps for Safari, and learn how to incorporate the tab bar in …
