Help get CSS Masonry in the browser. Jen Simmons & WebKit team need our input now on possible directions. Stoked! webkit.org/blog/15269/hel…

Super-amazing Masonry Layout demo drop by Jen Simmons at webkit.org/blog/15269/hel…

We're looking for feedback from authors, so check it out and send her your input!

What I’ve learned is global pandemics move people to the far right. Anti blackness rises, anti fatness rises, colorism rises, ableism, texturism etc. everyone wants to go back to conforming to yt supremacy because they think it will save them.

Modern web browser engines are complex beasts, and so is modern web content. The WebKit team delivered massive speedups on the Speedometer 3.0 benchmark. Here's technical deep dive into just a few of the dozens of individual optimizations.

webkit.org/blog/15249/opt…

We’ve been hard at work making Safari faster and faster — improving our Speedometer 3.0 score by ~60% between Safari 17.0 and Safari 17.4.

webkit.org/blog/15249/opt…

ALSO our folks have been working hard behind the scenes to bring sessions to YouTube! You can now watch content from WWDC23 here as well as in the Developer app and on the Apple Developer website. 📺

youtube.com/@AppleDeveloper

Apple Developer is now on YouTube!
youtube.com/@AppleDeveloper

Watch sessions from WWDC23 including...
• Meet Safari for spatial computing: youtu.be/-0P8q6CiBUc
• What’s new in web apps: youtu.be/zPeveL6B_6w

🎉You can use the gaze and pinch style interactions of visionOS in WebXR! It's a very natural feeling and precise way to interact with VR either up-close or at a distance whilst also being privacy preserving.

You don't need a VisionPro to test it either!
webkit.org/blog/15162/int…

Are you excited for WebXR support in Apple Vision Pro? In Safari 17.4 we added a new `transient-pointer` input mode, so you can create a WebXR experience that works with the interaction model of visionOS.

webkit.org/blog/15162/int…

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Safari 17.4 ships several new JS features 🎉

🔸 ArrayBuffer.protoype.transfer[ToFixedLength]
🔸 Int.DateTimeFormat TimeZoneOffset
🔸 Object.groupBy() & Map.groupBy()
🔸 Promise.withResolvers()

Safari 17.4 is here! With 46 features and 146 bug fixes
• menu commands for web apps on Mac
• switch control in HTML
• vertical forms
• align-content everywhere!
• CSS Scoping with Scope
• more video/audio codecs, including WebM & Vorbis on iOS
webkit.org/blog/15063/web…

🎨 Let’s make a visionOS app icon 🎨

If you’re designing a Vision Pro app you should be taking advantage of the fun parallax effect that happens on app icons:

I haven't seen a single tweet about Gaza today. What's going on!? 😔

A New Year’s resolution for reporters covering #LongCovid needs to be getting recovery facts right — most DO NOT recover. Current NIH cohort states 2/3 have not returned to baseline.

The recent Spanish study notes only 7% recovered after 2 years.

This is so, so critical.

Today's episode with Jen Simmons
syntax.fm/show/725/safar…

Interop 2024 is here!

webkit.org/blog/14955/the…

Safari 17.4 beta is out ! So much in it, including:
- @​scope
- align-content on blocks
- vertical form controls
- <hr> inside <select>
- <input type='checkbox' switch>
- VP8/VP9 & WebM on iOS & iPadOS
- Vorbis audio codec on iOS
- Fullscreen API on iOS
developer.apple.com/documentation/…

If you are at all into #CSS then Kevin Powell’s chat with Jen Simmons is well worth your time

youtube.com/watch?v=nn3vYS…

Jen Simmons was on Shop Talk Show 598 to talk about the Interop project, WebKit releases, new CSS features in Safari, and much more.

shoptalkshow.com/598/

I’m honored to be a guest on Kevin Powell’s YouTube channel about CSS. We talked about the web, CSS, and Safari.

youtu.be/nn3vYS_msc0?si…