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 …
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 …
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. …
Continue reading “Chrome is the new Safari. And so are Edge and Firefox.”
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 …
Continue reading “Why WebKit supports AVIF but Safari does not”
Google just announced it’ll fork Webkit for use with Chrome/Chromium as it has become too difficult to add features to it as Chrome uses quite a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers: When Chromium started, our goal was to change as little of WebKit as possible, easing integration with the WebKit codebase. With Blink …
Continue reading “Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project”
Especially with the news that Opera has moved to WebKit, we have a lot of WebKit browsers out there, but its pretty hard to know what they share and where they part ways. So let’s take a moment to understand some things: What is WebKit? What isn’t WebKit? How is WebKit used by WebKit-based browsers? …
The writings were on the wall with Opera Ice but now it’s official: Opera will move to Webkit entirely: To provide a leading browser on Android and iOS, this year Opera will make a gradual transition to the WebKit engine, as well as Chromium, for most of its upcoming versions of browsers for smartphones and …
Continue reading “Opera about to drop Presto in favor of Webkit”
One thing about iOS browsers that can be pretty frustrating, both as a developer and as a user, is when you open a site on an iPhone or iPod Touch (not iPad) and want to enter some text in a text field or pick an option from a select menu. Very often the browser will …
Continue reading “iOS WebKit browsers and auto-zooming form controls”
Opera, along with Mozilla, announced at a CSS Working Group meeting that we would support some -webkit prefixes. This is because through our site compatibility work, we have experienced that many authors of (especially mobile) sites only use -webkit prefixed CSS, thereby ignoring other vendor prefixes and not even including an unprefixed equivalent. This leads …
Continue reading “Opera Mobile Emulator with support for (some) -webkit vendor prefixes”