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News from WWDC23: WebKit Features in Safari 17 Beta

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Re: News from WWDC23: WebKit Features in Safari 17 Beta

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Post by simpleintheory »

samwillis wrote: post #2

Lots of really nice new stuff, particularly excited that Apple are finally embracing PWAs! Interesting to see Safari adding JPEG XL support just as Chrome dropped it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399940

That’s on Mac. PWAs on Mac aren’t a new capability since Chrome et al have had it for a long time. I’d be more interested if they improved iOS PWA capabilities

Re: News from WWDC23: WebKit Features in Safari 17 Beta

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Post by warning26 »

FractalHQ wrote: post #4

Nice now fix 3D transforms, SVG animations and clip-path or give me 200 hours of my life back. Safari rendering engine is a bug infested nightmare.

You're getting downvoted but to be honest, it's true -- Safari's layout engine and JS execution is just so glitchy and unpredictable. I'm guessing it's because they're prioritizing speed/efficiency over accuracy, but as a web dev it's...frustrating.

Re: News from WWDC23: WebKit Features in Safari 17 Beta

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Post by kevincox »

> When a user adds a website to their Dock, Safari will copy the website’s cookies to the web app. That way, if someone is logged into their account in Safari, they will remain logged in within the web app. This will only work if the authentication state is stored within cookies. Safari does not copy over any other kind of local storage. After a user adds a web app to the Dock, no other website data is shared, which is great for privacy.

This seems like a strange decision.

1. Auth with local storage can be quite nice if you don't need to send the cookies to the server on every request.

2. This will lead to different login states in the browser and in the "app" which is not what I would expect and can be inconvenient if you open links to that website.

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