Jen Simmons

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Jen Simmons
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 Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & nostr:npub1k5xw385vxy7uxuk78frwvr0wcejeyjfumfemg2fyxdck7a886npq8gdf3x. Member of CSS Working Group. Formerly Firefox. #longCOVID since March 2020. #pwME Verified with: https://fedified.com/@jensimmons Github: https://github.com/jensimmons CodePen: https://codepen.io/jensimmons
I’m surprised I haven’t heard more responses from web developers about the change to Safari on iOS and iPadOS regarding web apps. Now every website can be a web app (saved to the Home Screen and opened as a stand-alone app) — not just sites that have been configured a certain way by the developers. It’s a big difference for users. Every site gets the same experience. No more mysterious sometimes-it-works-one-way, sometimes-another. Read more:
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WebKit Features in Safari 26.0
We’re happy to share with you what’s arriving in Safari 26.0!
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Covid is highly contagious. It’s airborne. Floats in the air & hangs for hours, like measles. You can show up later & get infected. It’s incredibly damaging to the human body. Especially if you are infected over & over. The vaccines are amazing. And yet, they do not prevent vaccinated people from being infected & contagious. Many infectious people have no symptoms at all. The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.
Web developers, I have a question for you. Imagine an idea for a new web technology is proposed. But at least of the browser makers formally objects because of privacy concerns or other reasons. They say "No, we object to this proposal. We will never ship this. Let’s redesign it without these problems." But the other browser disagrees & ships anyway. Should that technology be considered A Web Standard — when 1 or 2 browsers implement & ship, while 1 or 2 browsers Formally Object and say no?
Web developers, do you test your sites in Safari Beta? (On a standalone machine, automated? On your Mac?) If not, why? Is it because installing the beta overrides regular Safari? If you could have Safari & Safari beta both at the same time, would you do so? What do you need? Why? Share details!