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Badging for Home Screen Web Apps
In iOS and iPadOS 16.4, the Badging API is available exclusively for web apps the user has added to their home screen. You won’t find the API exposed to websites in Safari or other browsers, or in any app that uses WKWebView. You can easily check for the availability of the API using feature detection…
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Introducing Natural Input for WebXR in Apple Vision Pro
Apple Vision Pro is here, and with it, a lot of excitement about the possibilities for WebXR in visionOS. Support is in progress, where you can test it today. WebXR now includes a more natural and privacy-preserving method for interaction — the new
transient-pointer
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WebKit Features in Safari 17.4
• Fixed Home Screen Web Apps in Simulator to be listed under a "Home Screen Web Apps" section in the device submenu of the Develop menu. (117742935) • Fixed the
tan()
function to not trigger the color picker. (118724061) WebGL • Fixed Canvas WebGL context capture to WebCodecsVideoFrame not capturing all frames. (108459224) … -
WebKit Features in Safari 17.2
When we brought web apps to Mac, we designed the experience of “Add to Dock” so that macOS copies the website’s current cookies over to the new web app. That way, if someone is logged into their account in the browser, they will remain logged in within the web app. They don’t have to log…
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WebKit Features in Safari 17.0
WebKit is also updating the storage quota policy. Previously, an origin had a starting storage limit of 1 GB. When exceeding that limit, the subsequent storage operation would fail in Home Screen web apps or prompt the user to give permission to increase the quota in Safari. Now, the origin quota is…
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News from WWDC23:
WebKit Features in Safari 17 betaWebKit has made some big updates to the storage quota policy. Previously, an origin had a starting storage limit of 1 GB. When exceeding the limit, the subsequent storage operation would fail in Home Screen web apps, or the user would see a prompt asking to increase the quota for the origin in…
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Web technology sessions at WWDC23
Discover web apps for Mac — a powerful way to experience your website from the Dock. Learn how you can customize your web app to give people the best experience when they add your site. We'll also share how to take advantage of push notifications and badging for web apps for Mac and Home Screen web…
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WebKit Features in Safari 16.4
… iOS and iPadOS 16.4 add support for Web Push to web apps added to the Home Screen. Web Push makes it possible for web developers to send push notifications to their users through the use of Push API, Notifications API, and Service Workers. Deeply integrated with iOS and iPadOS, Web Push notifications…
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Enabling the Inspection of Web Content in Apps
Web Inspector is a powerful tool that allows you to debug the layout of web pages, step through JavaScript, read messages logged to the console, and more. In Safari on macOS, you can use Web Inspector to inspect web pages, extensions, and service workers. iOS and iPadOS allow inspection of the same content…
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Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
Today marks the release of iOS and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1, and with it comes support for Web Push and other features for Home Screen web apps. Today also brings the first beta of Safari 16.4. It’s a huge release, packed with over 135 features in WebKit — including RegExp lookbehind assertions, Import…
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New WebKit Features in Safari 15.4
Web App Manifest and ServiceWorker received updates that improve the user experience for both websites in Safari and web apps saved to the home screen on iOS and iPadOS. Web App Manifest improvements include ensuring the browser always fetches the manifest file during page load instead of when…
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Enabling Web Inspector
• any page in Safari • websites added to the home screen • web content in developer provisioned apps •
SFSafariViewController
•WKWebView
•UIWebView
•JSContext
NOTE: in order to use remote inspection, Web Inspector must be enabled on the connected macOS machine…