Tag Archives: safari

Rendering Sites Fullscreen in Safari on iPhone X / Introducing “User Agent Variables”

September 14, 2017 by Bramus! Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading →

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Safari Auto-Play Policy Changes for macOS

June 9, 2017 by Bramus! Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading →

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Safari Technology Preview

March 31, 2016 by Bramus! Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading →

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iOS9 MobileSafari Viewport Problem

October 6, 2015 by Bramus! 4 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

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Debugging iOS Safari and UIWebViews using Chrome DevTools

October 3, 2014 by Bramus! Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading →

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iOS7 for Web Developers

September 26, 2013 by Bramus! Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading →

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