Download Apple Safari Technology Preview Release 26

Apple has released a new version of the Technology Preview of its Safari web browser. The version number is pinned to release 26 and includes the changes made in the WebKit revisions 213542-213822 are made. These include improvements for Rendering, Web Inspector, WebDriver and WebCrypto. In the experimental features menu is also a WebGPU prototype added. The list of changes in this release is as follows:

Release 26

WebGPU

• Added WebGPU prototype in the Experimental Features menu

Web API

• Added support for history.scrollRestoration
• Aligned Document.elementFromPoint() with the CSSOM specification
• Changed the parameter to input.setCustomValidity() to not be nullable
• Fixed transitions and animations of background-position with right-relative and bottom-relative values
• Fixed an issue where WebSQL directories were not removed when removing website data
• Made the XMLHttpRequest method setRequestHeader() use “,” (including a space) as the separator
• Prevented displaying the label of anelement in quirks mode
• Prevented additional downloads or preloaded CSS
• Dropped support for non-standard document.all.tags()

C.S.S

• Implemented stroke width CSS property

rendering

• Enabled asynchronous image decoding for large images
• Fixed memory estimate for layers supporting subpixel-antialised text
• Fixed columns getting clipped horizontally in CSS Multicolumn

Web Inspector

• Added XHR breakpoints UI
• Added DOM breakpoints UI for node and subtree modification events
• Added a “Create Breakpoint” context menu item for linked source locations
• Added settings for controlling Styles sidebar intelligence
• Added cache source information (Memory Cache or Disk Cache) in the Network tab
• Added protocol, remote address, priority, and connection ID in the Network tab
• Added individual messages to the content pane for a WebSocket
• Fixed an issue where the DOM tree is broken if an element has a debounce attribute
• Fixed an issue in the Resources tab navigation bar allowing the same file from a contextual menu item to be saved more than once
• Improved the layout of the compositing reasons in the Layers sidebar popover

WebDriver

• Fixed an issue where automation commands hang making it impossible to navigate back or forward

WebCrypto

• Implemented ECDH ImportKey and ExportKey operations