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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 43 With Bug Fixes and Feature Improvements

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Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced more than a year ago 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 43 includes fixes and improvements for Web Animations, ImageBitmap, Geolocation API, Drag and Drop, CSS, Rendering, WebGL, JavasScript, Web Inspector, Web API, Web Driver, Payment Request, Subresource Integrity, and Accessibility. Today's update also activates the Cache Storage API by default and adds new CacheStorage functionality.

With Safari 11 now available in macOS High Sierra, Apple is providing two versions of Safari Technology Preview, one for macOS Sierra users and one for those using macOS High Sierra.

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 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 designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download.

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Been in beta for over a year. 43 beta releases, just a bit less than one per week. Wow, to repeat some people here on MR, Apple sure is responsive and on-the-ball. They care about getting it right. Or, they just can't get it right? I'm not aware of any other product that has been in beta for a year. What is your view?
 
nt5672 said:
Been in beta for over a year. 43 beta releases, just a bit less than one per week. Wow, to repeat some people here on MR, Apple sure is responsive and on-the-ball. They care about getting it right. Or, they just can't get it right? I'm not aware of any other product that has been in beta for a year. What is your view?
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This is a technology preview, with features slowly trickling into the public Safari release, not the same as a beta...
 
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nt5672 said:
Been in beta for over a year. 43 beta releases, just a bit less than one per week. Wow, to repeat some people here on MR, Apple sure is responsive and on-the-ball. They care about getting it right. Or, they just can't get it right? I'm not aware of any other product that has been in beta for a year. What is your view?
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It will always be, it's the technology preview of what they are working on. When a feature is ready, they ship it in the stable Safari version, like they already did.
 
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nt5672 said:
Been in beta for over a year. 43 beta releases, just a bit less than one per week. Wow, to repeat some people here on MR, Apple sure is responsive and on-the-ball. They care about getting it right. Or, they just can't get it right? I'm not aware of any other product that has been in beta for a year. What is your view?
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Haha are you serious?
 
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Thought they just updated to 42 with the High Sierra update like a day or two ago? Atleast my high sierra update came with 42 and I was on 41 before that. Unfortunately for me 42 didn't work right at all. Tons of 'failed loading page' errors and other page load hanging etc. so i went back to using regular Safari. Does this fix those issues from the recent 42?
 
Has Bonjour browser been restored yet? How about RSS support?

What is the best way to achieve feature parity between Safari on iOS and Mac? By adding features to the iOS version or by removing features from the Mac version?
 
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So apple.. instead of repeating again pretty much the same list of broken stuff I've posted on the last version, will say some additions like the spreadsheet editor look promising this time.. or at least that's what I thought until I've tried it and realized you can "edit" properties and values but cannot add any new properties to the selectors? Guess that's not under "css editing" in your book? damn fine software development, and people mock up Microsoft and Google lol.

Also, if you are gonna create a new style editor for such basic features, at least revamp it's god damn UI for once! better looking checkboxes? no option to fully comment all selector properties on 1 click either? Add elements JS event listener icons with a little popup containing behavior or something on the elements tab view, like firefox does, that's useful, the way you show it under Node is dreadful, maybe embed your digital color meter tool to come bulit-in to the inspector as well? maybe a UI dark mode, too hard? One can tell you love your job! you switch clear console icon back to a trash can and note it on release notes, wtf is that, focus on improving dev productivity ffs!

It's great you added key shortcuts to responsive mode back, thanks (even though it was done prior to this version).

476/555 with all features on.
 
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mdriftmeyer said:
What reason does Apple have to authorize VP9? More to the point, VP9 is a dead-end technology now being incorporated into Cisco codec and Google is no longer advancing it.

Eventually, Google will add HEVC to YouTube and all the content will be leveraged via that.
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What reason ?
How about even Edge supports it ? :D
 
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