Apple Launches 'Safari Technology Preview' Browser for Web Developers

[Sanlitun]

I may be seeing things, but to my eyes it seems the font rendering is just ever so slightly better than the release version of Safari.

Blurry fonts with OSX is my biggest pet peeve.

 

[east85]

Does this support WebRTC?

 

[Michael Goff]

I may be seeing things, but to my eyes it seems the font rendering is just ever so slightly better than the release version of Safari.

Blurry fonts with OSX is my biggest pet peeve.

Good to know they're looking into improved font rendering.

 

[You are the One]

Would like to see options in Safari prefs for more control of cookies. Cookie5 is a great app but the main functions of it should be in Safari by default.

 

[gsmornot]

Ok, I am not a web developer so maybe I'm not the right person for this version of Safari. If you're like me, what is your reason for wanting to use the Technology Preview version over the standard version? I'm using it, it works well, but what should I be looking for? One thing I notice is ad block extensions (Adblock Plus) is not working. No error but not stopping any ads either.

Keep in mind I'm not minimizing the need for this but wondering if I should be looking for something or trying something that I can't do today with the standard version. I would like to learn more about this so I'm asking.

 

[steve333]

This is already possible. Click on the History menu item, then hold the ALT key and the "Clear History" option becomes "Clear History and Keep Website Data".

Thank you, but Apple needs to make it easy to do

 

[Skoal]

Downloaded it last night. The amount of services it wants to connect to behind the scenes is staggering. Yahoo, Facebook, Yelp, Google, Bing, and many I'd never heard of. The list goes on and on.

 

[You are the One]

Downloaded it last night. The amount of services it wants to connect to behind the scenes is staggering. Yahoo, Facebook, Yelp, Google, Bing, and many I'd never heard of. The list goes on and on.

Think that's from the pre-loaded Favourites window. Open new windows/tabs with homepage or blank. Setting in Safari prefs General.

I tested it, looks neat but the Cookie app don't work with it so I'll remove it.

 

[nvmls]

After 8 hour daily test since release day, I'm removing it. CSS seems bugged and won't impact on pages sometimes, considering it impacts fine on regular Safari, this has been a downgrade in workflow. Safari needs a lot of work if Apple wants to cater devs.

No crashes experienced and extensions such as adblock (hand icon) & ublock (you need to place extension file manually on SPT extensions folder and run it form there) worked flawlessly. I didn't notice it snappier than regular Safari.

 

[mscuthbert]

Ok, I am not a web developer so maybe I'm not the right person for this version of Safari. If you're like me, what is your reason for wanting to use the Technology Preview version over the standard version? I'm using it, it works well, but what should I be looking for? One thing I notice is ad block extensions (Adblock Plus) is not working. No error but not stopping any ads either.

Keep in mind I'm not minimizing the need for this but wondering if I should be looking for something or trying something that I can't do today with the standard version. I would like to learn more about this so I'm asking.

Basically there's no reason to do so. It's there so that people who develop for the web can test to see if some new feature will someday work on Safari and to get ahead of any potential bugs before it launches. If there's a site that doesn't work with Safari, maybe it'd work with the tech preview, but more likely it'll work with Chrome or Firefox or some other software that's already out there. I can't imagine anyone will write code specifically to target Safari Tech Preview.