Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 19 With Touch Bar Support for Webkit

[MacRumors]

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

Safari Technology Preview release 19 includes bug fixes and updates for HTML Form Validation, Pointer Lock API, Input Events, URL Parser, Web Inspector, Shadow DOM, Rendering, and more. Preview 19 also adds Touch Bar support in Webkit.

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 receive feedback from developers and users on its browser development process. Safari Technology Preview can run side-by-side with the existing Safari browser and while designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download.

Article Link: Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 19 With Touch Bar Support for Webkit

 

[GastonM]

HTML5test score went from 444 to 452. Nice to see that Safari is catching up and now only 8 points behind Edge and 9 points behind Firefox.

 

[JaguarF]

HTML5test score went from 444 to 452. Nice to see that Safari is catching up and now only 8 points behind Edge and 9 points behind Firefox.

Yeah. Seems stable as well (at least to me). I hope they bring all this technology to the release version of Safari ASAP.

 

[NoWayBehind]

How is battery life in these Preview Versions compared to the regular one?

 

[MikhailT]

How is battery life in these Preview Versions compared to the regular one?

No differences between them for me, STP is my favorite browser on the Mac. Faster than regular Safari versions when you don't want to use macOS betas.

 

[JaguarF]

How is battery life in these Preview Versions compared to the regular one?

No detectable difference that I can detect.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

HTML5test score went from 444 to 452. Nice to see that Safari is catching up and now only 8 points behind Edge and 9 points behind Firefox.

Odd. It's showing up on macOS Sierra 10.12 for me `You are using Safari 10.1 on macOS Sierra 10.12' with 449.

 

[zigmund555]

HTML5test score went from 444 to 452. Nice to see that Safari is catching up and now only 8 points behind Edge and 9 points behind Firefox.

YAY! More completely arbitrary points.

Safari gets 0/5 for web payments (normal credit cards) with 0 points available for ApplePay or TouchID authenticated payments. Makes sense.

No points for Web M? Of course not, that's a google thing, it infringes on the MPEG-LA patents, and Apple is part of of the H264 and eventually H265 so why would they bother with webm?

Doesn't support Ogg Theora?????? No browsers do.

No speech recognition? Seems to work fine on my mbp and my iMac, although maybe that's a technicality since it's OS X.

TLR - these tests are stupid

 

[reallynotnick]

HTML5test score went from 444 to 452. Nice to see that Safari is catching up and now only 8 points behind Edge and 9 points behind Firefox.

Anything going on in the Peer To Peer section? Curious if WebRTC is coming along at all (I'm still on 10.11 so I can't try it)

 

[lammylamchops]

It's crashing for me if I type 'acqua' into the address bar. It might be crashing at 'acqu' but I can't tell for sure. Is this happening for anyone else?

 

[GIZBUG]

How many previews do we need before this goes final!? Damn

 

[glhaynes]

It's crashing for me if I type 'acqua' into the address bar. It might be crashing at 'acqu' but I can't tell for sure. Is this happening for anyone else?

Not me on macOS 10.12.1. Maybe because of some bookmark/recently-visited item you have?

 

[Awjvail]

How many previews do we need before this goes final!? Damn

It's never going final. The Safari Tech Preview just keeps iterating while merging its content into the main Safari release.

 

[Andres Cantu]

HTML5test score went from 444 to 452. Nice to see that Safari is catching up and now only 8 points behind Edge and 9 points behind Firefox.

Thanks for posting! Glad to hear Safari is finally catching up in this metric.

 

[groovyd]

will give it another try... dropped it a half dozen releases or so ago cause it was full of bugs.

 

[swm]

omg, how far as we will see stupid web-ads showing up on the touchbar?

 

[cityboy-100]

Can anyone tell from the webkit site if there is an API to change the TouchBar? Can you HelloWorld it from the javascript console in preview 19? I can hardly make heads or tails of the webkit site.

 

[CPx]

They still haven't fixed adding bookmarks....