Official Twitter account for the WebKit Open Source Project β the web browser engine that powers Safari and other apps on macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux.
iOS and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1 is now available with:
β’ Web Push for Home Screen web apps
β’ Focus support for Web Push
β’ Badging API
β’ Manifest ID
β’ Third-party browser support for Add to Home Screen
And more:
Learn about the new bytecode format in JavaScriptCore that uses 50% less memory, which is a 10% overall memory usage savings on JavaScript-heavy websites. webkit.org/blog/9329/a-neβ¦
Battery life is critical. Here are some general principles for web developers to create energy-efficient web content. You can help us make the web more powerful by using less power. webkit.org/blog/8970/how-β¦
Safari 18.0 is here!! Lots of new web technology, including CSS View Transitions, Style Queries, immersive WebXR, plus updates for Web Apps, JavaScript, Web API, Media, Web Inspector, Passkeys and more β 53 features, 25 deprecations & 209 resolved issues.
Today weβre excited to announce Speedometer 3 in collaboration with @googlechrome, @firefox, & @MicrosoftEdge. This benchmark measures speed & guides browser teams as they make websites & web apps run faster than ever β now with a new generation of tests. webkit.org/blog/15131/speβ¦
Today Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, & Mozilla are announcing Interop 2022, a collaboration to improve interoperability of specific web technologies. Progress is scored from the automated testing of 15 focus areas, plus 3 investigation projects. webkit.org/blog/12288/worβ¦
Check out the experimental implementation of the new WebGPU API, for high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web. You can try a live demo in Safari Technology Preview 91. webkit.org/blog/9528/webgβ¦
Safari 16.4 is now available with 135 new features + 280 bug fixes, including Web Push on iOS & iPadOS, Web Apps, Web Components, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, WebAssembly, Web API, Media, WKWebView, Developer Tooling, Web Inspector, Web Extensions, and more:
WebKit for Safari 17.4 is here! With 46 features and 146 bug fixes, it includes:
β’ menu commands for web apps on Mac
β’ switch control
β’ vertical forms
β’ align-content everywhere!
β’ CSS Scoping
β’ WebM & Vorbis on iOS, iPadOS and visionOS
and more!