Apple Begins Adding Apple Pay Code Support Into Safari Technology Preview 8

[MacRumors]

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced on March 30, 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into the release version of Safari.

Safari Technology Preview release 8 includes bug fixes and updates for JavaScript, CSS, Web APIs, Web Inspector, media handling, rendering, accessibility, and security. Apple has also for the first time begun moving Apple Pay support code into Safari Technology Preview. Apple Pay support for Safari is coming as part of macOS Sierra, but will not be functional until websites begin supporting it.

The Safari Technology Preview update is available through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store to anyone who has downloaded the browser. Full release notes for the update are available on the Safari Technology Preview website.

Apple's goal with Safari Technology Preview is to gather feedback from developers and users on its browser development process. Safari Technology Preview can be run side-by-side with the existing Safari browser and while aimed at developers, it does not require a developer account to download.

Article Link: Apple Begins Adding Apple Pay Code Support Into Safari Technology Preview 8

 

[coolfactor]

I still don't know why this is a Safari-only feature... couldn't it have been implemented as an installable JavaScript library that works in any modern browser? Maybe one day it will be...

 

[now i see it]

Touch ID = iPhone = Safari

 

[Rudy69]

The update is available for Sienna too

 

[thisisnotmyname]

Any ecommerce sites implemented it yet? Do I have to put the iOS 10 beta on a phone too?

 

[AtheistP3ace]

Was just about to ask if this was a safari only thing, but first comment seems to answer that. Either way I really only use safari anyway. Looking forward to this. I like getting the notifications when my card is used.

I have a friend who gets notifications even when he swipes his AE card at a store. I wish my card did that and not only when I use apple pay.

 

[sudo1996]

Can we have Safari tell every website it's Firefox? I'm sick of this kind of BS:

Works perfectly fine if I change my user agent.

 

[foozipper]

ES6 100% support!!

 

[JaJaWa]

Can we have Safari tell every website it's Firefox? I'm sick of this kind of BS:

Works perfectly fine if I change my user agent.

Isn't that a new feature? http://www.zdnet.com/article/safari-to-tell-websites-flash-is-not-installed/

 

[sudo1996]

Isn't that a new feature? http://www.zdnet.com/article/safari-to-tell-websites-flash-is-not-installed/

That's a cool feature, but the problem with Pandora is different. Pandora has an HTML5 player, but they think that only Firefox and Chrome support HTML5 for some reason, so they force others to fall back to their old Flash player. It's not an isolated incident. There are a few websites I have to change my user agent for, and I'd rather have that be done automatically.