Safari Technology Preview Turns 10: A Decade of Testing Apple's Web Technologies

[MacRumors]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Safari Technology Preview, a version of Safari that's aimed at testing new web technologies.

Apple first announced Safari Technology Preview for Mac on March 30, 2016, and rolled it out that same day. At the time, Apple said that it wanted to get feedback from developers on browser development using a method more easily accessible than WebKit. "Get a sneak peek at upcoming web technologies in macOS and iOS with Safari Technology Preview and experiment with these technologies in your websites and extensions," reads the description on Apple's developer website.

Safari Technology Preview can be used side-by-side with the main Safari browser, and it can be set as the default if users prefer it. Though it is designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download and use. Safari Technology Preview has a purple icon to distinguish it from the standard version of Safari.

STP is compatible with macOS Sequoia and macOS Tahoe right now, and when macOS 27 launches, it will work with macOS 27 and macOS Tahoe.

Apple regularly releases updates for Safari Technology Preview, and over the last decade, we've had 240 versions. Apple provides detailed release notes for each update, highlighting new additions and bug fixes in STP that will later come to the primary version of Safari.

Safari Technology Preview can be downloaded from Apple's developer website.

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[DocMultimedia]

How many try this when the updates come out? I did back in the first few (years ago), but didn't continue.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

Wow, hard to believe Safari is only ten years old!

 

[Dj64Mk7]

How many years of “Safari is snappier!” jokes have there been?

 

[rosenkrieger]

And yet, after all these years, there are still websites that do not work 100% with Safari - which makes me a bit sad. I really like Safari - but during my work day I use a whole bunch of (business) websites and some of them just do not work correctly (Stripo for example) with the newest Safari so I have to use something like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge (both Chromium based).

 

[Starfia]

(Long live WebKit Nightly.) 🏰

 

[hiphopdan]

Purple safari icon > blue safari icon

 

[F vd Geest]

Sadly enough, still only with English language support, no Dutch, French, German etc.

 

[Alina Tysl]

And yet, after all these years, there are still websites that do not work 100% with Safari - which makes me a bit sad. I really like Safari - but during my work day I use a whole bunch of (business) websites and some of them just do not work correctly (Stripo for example) with the newest Safari so I have to use something like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge (both Chromium based).

Hello!

Could you please share more details about what is not working in Stripo when using the Safari browser? Any additional information would be very helpful for us to identify and resolve the issue.