A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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 …
A common thing to do regarding font-sizing is to use Viewport Unit Based Typography, nowadays often combined with CSS min() or clamp(): :root { font-size: min(calc(1em + 1vw), 4em); } However, as Sara Soueidan details, Safari doesn’t co-operate here: In Safari on macOS, the fluid text wasn’t really fluid—resizing the viewport did nothing to the …
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Harry Roberts explains how to inspect pages from MobileSafari (on your iDevice) using the Safari (on your Mac) DevTools. It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but if I recall correctly you can — once set up — also debug pages in MobileSafari without needing a physical USB connection. It’ll run over Bluetooth. Measuring …
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Simo Ahava: The purpose of ITP is to prevent tracking tools’ access to data stored and processed in the browser. This involves things like blocking all third-party cookies and restricting the lifetime of first-party cookies. In this article, I want to show you how to use the ITP Debug Mode. It’s a console logger that …
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One of the features of the Web Share API is that it allows you to share files along with your share intent: if (navigator.canShare && navigator.canShare({ files: filesArray })) { navigator.share({ files: filesArray, title: 'Vacation Pictures', text: 'Photos from September 27 to October 14.', }) .then(() => console.log('Share was successful.')) .catch((error) => console.log('Sharing failed', error)); …
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This year’s spring releases of Safari 13.1 for macOS Catalina, iPadOS, iOS, and watchOS bring a tremendous number of WebKit improvements for the web across Apple’s platforms. All of this with many more updates for improved privacy, performance, and a host of new tools for web developers. These features stand out to me: Pointer and …
Mattias recently tweeted that his website can now be served over HTTP/3 “even though no browser supports it yet”. While it’s true that no browser supports it out of the box right now, there are options to enable HTTP/3. Here’s how. 🧪 As with all experimental technolgy/features: things might break! Be warned! ~ Google Chrome …
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Amazing rundown by Ryan Pickren on how he gained unauthorized Camera access on iOS and macOS. We started on a normal HTTP website and ended up on a bastardized blob URI in a Secure Context. Here is a quick summary of how we did it: Open evil HTTP website HTTP website becomes a data: URI …
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 …