Discussion Apple Safari browser - News, Updates & Discussions

Sparker0i · 27 Dec 2019

There are a couple screen grabs from the bug report. The first one clearly shows this request coming from a developer with an @apple.com address along with an included screenshot, and upon quick inspection, the screenshot is of Safari running on Chromium in an alpha state.

Move over Edge: Safari looks to be jumping on the Chromium bandwagon, too

Bapun · 23 Jun 2020

General
New Features

Added Safari Web Extensions support for macOS.
Added Webpage Translation (Beta) for English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Safari will automatically detect if a translation is available based on your Preferred Languages list.
Added support for HTTP/3.
Improved Web Platform Tests pass rate for WebDriver, XHR+Fetch, Service Workers, CSS, and SVG.

Removed Features

Safari no longer supports Flash.

Performance
New Features

Supported incremental loading of PDF files.
Implemented asynchronous scrolling for overflow: scroll, and <iframe> on macOS.
Improved tab closing performance.
Improved IndexedDB performance.
Improved JavaScript cookie access performance.
Improved for-of performance.

Privacy
New Features

Added a Privacy Report that shows the trackers that Intelligent Tracking Prevention prevented from accessing identifying information.
Enabled full third-party cookie blocking, and the Storage Access API in Private Browsing mode.

Authentication and Passwords
New Features

Added a Web Authentication platform authenticator using Face ID or Touch ID, depending on which capability is present.
Added support for PIN entry and account selection on external Web Authentication security keys.
Added notifying users when one of their saved passwords in iCloud Keychain has shown up in a data breach; requesting a password change uses the well-known URL for changing passwords (https://example.com/.well-known/change-password), enabling websites to specify the page to open for updating a password.
Added support to Security Code AutoFill for domain-bound, one-time codes sent over SMS; in the following 2FA SMS, Safari only offers to fill the code on example.com, and no other domain.
Your Example code is 123446.
@example.com #123446

JavaScript
New Features

Added support for the BigInt data type.
Added support for creating custom instances of EventTarget.
Added logical assignment operator support.
Added public class fields support.

Media
New Features

Added WebP image support.
Added HDR video playback support.
Changed to derive <img> aspect ratio from size attributes.
Support for the Picture-in-Picture API is now available in iOS on iPhone.

CSS
New Features

Updated image-set() to support all other image functions including image(), -webkit-canvas(), -webkit-cross-fade(), and -webkit-*-gradient().
Added :is() pseudo-selector support as a synonym for :matches().
Added :where() pseudo-selector support for specificity adjustment.
Added support for image-orientation.

Web Inspector
New Features

Added support for a bootstrap script.
Added a Sources Tab that combines the Resources tab and Debugger tab.
Added an HSL color picker with P3 support.
Added information about Web Animations, CSS animations, and CSS transitions to the Timelines tab.
Improved VoiceOver support.

Apple Developer Documentation

Bapun · 17 Jan 2022

A software bug in Apple browser Safari 15 may let any website track your internet activity and even reveal your identity via macOS, iOS and iPadOS 15, according to a new report. The bug could also expose your Google User ID to other websites.

In this case, private mode viewing in Safari 15 browser is also suspected to be affected by the vulnerability.

Apple Safari 15 bug can leak your browsing activity, personal data

A software bug in Apple browser Safari 15 may let any website track your internet activity and even reveal your identity via macOS, iOS and iPadOS 15, according to a new report

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