Jonathan Davis – Web Technologies Evangelist for Apple – has done a writeup on the new features that have landed in Safari 12.1, which is included with macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2. This release delivers web platform features that improve website integration with the operating system, new real-time communication capabilities, more compatible encrypted media […]
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Rendering Sites Fullscreen in Safari on iPhone X / Introducing “User Agent Variables”
What the …? By default, the new iPhone X in landscape mode will contain sites in the so called “safe area”, resulting in white bars being rendered on either side of the site (src). The color, white by default, can be tweaked by altering the background-color on the <body> element. Do note that it’s only […]
Safari Auto-Play Policy Changes for macOS
The Safari team: Safari in macOS High Sierra uses an automatic inference engine to block media elements with sound from auto-playing by default on most websites. Safari 11 also gives users control over which websites are allowed to auto-play video and audio by opening Safari’s new “Websites” preferences pane, or through the “Settings for This […]
Safari Technology Preview
Safari Technology Preview is a version of Safari for OS X, distributed by Apple, that includes a cutting-edge, in-development version of the WebKit browser engine. It’s a great way to test upcoming WebKit features and give feedback to the people building them when it’s most useful — early in development. Think Webkit Nightly, but then […]
iOS9 MobileSafari Viewport Problem
The viewport is set incorrectly when the viewport meta tag is specified with initial-scale=1 or width=device-width, and the page contains an element (e.g. div tag) that is wider than the desired viewport’s boundary. In the screenshot above (courtesy @RWD) you can see that the off-screen menu actually appears on-screen in iOS9. Apple changed how iOS9 […]
Debugging iOS Safari and UIWebViews using Chrome DevTools
The ios_webkit_debug_proxy allows developers to inspect MobileSafari and UIWebViews on real and simulated iOS devices via the DevTools UI and WebKit Remote Debugging Protocol. DevTools requests are translated into Apple’s Remote Web Inspector service calls. The proxy detects when iOS devices are attached/removed and provides the current device list on http://localhost:9221. A developer can click […]
iOS7 for Web Developers
Apple has rolled out iOS 7. As expected Apple has published only 10% of the necessary information for web developers and I can say without fear of mistake that this is the buggiest Safari version since 1.0 Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5: problems, changes and new APIs →
Their missing Mile-High Menus and Magic Corners : Fitts’ Law vs. Apple on Windows
When using software Fitts’ Law – a model of human movement, predicting the time required to rapidly move from a starting position to a final target area, as a function of the distance to the target and the size of the target – is in effect all the time. Microsoft understands the importance of this […]
Safari on PC
I knew Apple was up to something! Go download here! Update #1: Just noticed that there’s still a lot of work to do to make the PC and Mac version consistent, or we’ll be going back in time on this one (anyone remember IE 5.02?) Update #2: continued in the comments (scroll down!)