Jen Simmons

I’m surprised I haven’t heard more responses from web developers about the change to Safari on iOS and iPadOS regarding web apps. Now every website can be a web app (saved to the Home Screen and opened as a stand-alone app) — not just sites that have been configured a certain way by the developers. It’s a big difference for users. Every site gets the same experience. No more mysterious sometimes-it-works-one-way, sometimes-another. Read more:

WebKit

WebKit Features in Safari 26.0

We’re happy to share with you what’s arriving in Safari 26.0!

Covid is highly contagious. It’s airborne. Floats in the air & hangs for hours, like measles. You can show up later & get infected. It’s incredibly damaging to the human body. Especially if you are infected over & over. The vaccines are amazing. And yet, they do not prevent vaccinated people from being infected & contagious. Many infectious people have no symptoms at all. The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.

Did you know there’s work going on to add a `random()` function to CSS?? You can try it out today in Safari Technology Preview. Learn what it means, how to use it and see a bunch of examples at:

WebKit

Rolling the Dice with CSS random()

Random functions in programming languages are amazing.

Do you use `-webkit-font-smoothing` in CSS? How do you feel about it? Would you miss it if it went away???

Yesterday’s Safari Technology Preview 225 includes auto-expanding `<details>` element and `hidden=until-found`. Plus more & more bug fixes.

WebKit

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 225

Safari Technology Preview Release 225 is now available for download for macOS Tahoe and macOS Sequoia.

Web developers, do you test your sites in Safari Beta? (On a standalone machine, automated? On your Mac?) If not, why? Is it because installing the beta overrides regular Safari? If you could have Safari & Safari beta both at the same time, would you do so? What do you need? Why? Share details!

Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of developers & other people wish that uBlock Origin was available for Safari. Now it is! Download for Safari 18.6 and Safari 26 beta.

App Store

uBlock Origin Lite App - App Store

Download uBlock Origin Lite by Raymond Hill on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like uBlock Origin Lite.

What do you need most from WebKit (the rendering engine for Safari that runs your HTML, CSS, JS, and more)? If you are making websites, what could we do in WebKit to make it easier for you to create fantastic experiences for your users?

It’s the last day to take the State of CSS survey!!! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... If you write CSS, please do! The information has real impact. #css #webdev

If you code websites, then you KNOW how it’s been to style form controls. Watch this #cssday talk from @ntim.bsky.social to learn why it’s been so hard, and how we are going to fix it for the future. #css #webdev #formcontrols