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Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser.

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Safari Technology Preview 210 includes fixes and updates for CSS, DOM, JavaScript, Rendering, Web Animations, Web API, Web Extensions, and Web Inspector.

The current Safari Technology Preview release is compatible with machines running macOS Sonoma and macOS Sequoia, the newest version of macOS.

The Safari Technology Preview update is available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences or System Settings to anyone who has downloaded the browser from Apple’s website. Complete release notes for the update are available on the Safari Technology Preview website.

Apple’s aim with Safari Technology Preview is to gather 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 it is designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download and use.


Article Link: Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 210 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
 
Preview 210 ... and still I cant find a reason to move back to it...

I dont know why.
I still have bank sites (and others) that just dont like Safari.
There's something in there that is either too strict on standards or these sites are badly coded.
 
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Preview 210 ... and still I cant find a reason to move back to it...

I dont know why.
I still have bank sites (and others) that just dont like Safari.
There's something in there that is either too strict on standards or these sites are badly coded.
I, on the other hand, have no issues with any of my banks, credit card companies, or other sites, including .gov sites. Have you tried turning off Private Relay if you subscribe iCloud+. Are you using Private Browsing when your try to login? Are you using a VPN?

Under the View pulldown menu do you see “Reload and Show IP Address”.
 
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I, on the other hand, have no issues with any of my banks, credit card companies, or other sites. Have you tried turning off Private Relay if you subscribe iCloud+. Are you using Private Browsing when your try to login? Are you using a VPN?

Under the View pulldown menu do you see “Reload and Show IP Address”.
no not using VPN or Private Browsing. It's on my partner's iMac. Bog standard. Nothing exotic added...

some sites just either use weird Java code maybe or dont care about Apple browsers.
 
no not using VPN or Private Browsing. It's on my partner's iMac. Bog standard. Nothing exotic added...

some sites just either use weird Java code maybe or dont care about Apple browsers.
Please provide a site that doesn’t work.

"some sites just either use weird Java code maybe or dont care about Apple browsers"

Not the case and you are just grasping at straws. The Safari browser has large percentage of the browser market (macOS, iOS, iPadOS) and developers would be compelled to support it, especially banks and such.
 
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Anyone have any idea how to get this on iOS or iPadOS? I don’t see it in the Dev Portal.
 
Please provide a site that doesn’t work.

"some sites just either use weird Java code maybe or dont care about Apple browsers"

Not the case and you are just grasping at straws. The Safari browser has large percentage of the browser market (macOS, iOS, iPadOS) and developers would be compelled to support it, especially banks and such.
it was a bank one and after you type in account details it just hangs or wont proceed.
so i cant send it to you...

but it works on Chrome.
 
it was a bank one and after you type in account details it just hangs or wont proceed.
so i cant send it to you...

but it works on Chrome.
Safari does not have a big market share at all.
When we rang the bank they said they dont test for it...
 
Please provide a site that doesn’t work.

"some sites just either use weird Java code maybe or dont care about Apple browsers"

Not the case and you are just grasping at straws. The Safari browser has large percentage of the browser market (macOS, iOS, iPadOS) and developers would be compelled to support it, especially banks and such.
ask yourself why I would "grasp at straws"? it just has issues with some sites. i was letting readers know what our experience was.

it's not an agenda against Apple or Safari.

most simple sites it's fine. on my phone or ipad it's fine for what i do. but the desktop one can have problems...
 
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Anyone have any idea how to get this on iOS or iPadOS? I don’t see it in the Dev Portal.

There is no iOS version. But if you mean just the links, they are always on webkit.org, only the betas listed there are in the Developer Portal.


Sequoia:


Sonoma:



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There are no direct links from outside the Developer Portal (yet) maybe later or with a later beta.
 
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would like them change safari to that purple color on the os as well

You could try it yourself by dragging this

STP-768x768.png

on the small icon in the upper left until a green dot with a white plus appears

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and then release the mouse button or trackpad and confirm it with:
Screen Shot 2024-12-19 at 04.04.20.png
 
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