Here's how Apple protects your privacy in Safari with Intelligent Tracking Protection 2.0

Apple released a new Safari Tech Preview on Wednesday, and it includes the Intelligent Tracking Protection 2.0 that was promised at WWDC. AppleInsider looks at what Apple is doing to ensure your protection and privacy as you go about your business on the web.

Mike Wuerthele 7 years ago 21

iOS 12 will continue supporting iPhone 5S, WebKit developer reports suggest

References to iOS 12, Apple's next iteration of its mobile operating system, have surfaced in development testing reports for WebKit, with the appearance strongly suggesting Apple will be bringing the next major iOS release to the iPhone 5s as the oldest supported iPhone model.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 17

Apple's WebKit team helps launch Speedometer 2.0 browser benchmark

In partnership with Chromium, Apple's WebKit team has released Speedometer 2.0, an updated benchmark for developers testing the performance of browser engines.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 13

Apple may integrate Service Workers into WebKit, support next-gen web apps in Safari

Apple this week began work toward integrating Service Workers, an API that lets browsers run background scripts, into WebKit, suggesting the company might one day support a form of next-generation web app in iOS.

AppleInsider Staff 8 years ago 9

Nintendo Switch exploit discovered, leverages old iOS WebKit jailbreak method

Hackers have worked out a way to "jailbreak" the Nintendo Switch by attacking the game console's web browser, a technique that reused a vulnerability discovered in early 2016 commonly used to jailbreak iPhones running iOS 9.3.

Malcolm Owen 9 years ago 4

Apple seeks to position Metal as part of new 3D graphics standard for web

Apple's WebKit team on Tuesday proposed a new Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that will focus on developing a new standard API, perhaps based on Metal, for accelerating GPU-based 3D graphics and general computation for the web.

Mikey Campbell 9 years ago 14

French company sues Apple over incomplete HTML5 support on iOS, macOS Safari

A development company is taking advantage of a French law, and is suing Apple over incomplete implementation of the HTML 5 specification in the iOS version of Safari.

Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 64

New WebKit policies in iOS 10 to allow autoplay of silent videos in Safari, pause those with audio

In a bid to improve user experience, Apple's mobile Safari web browser in iOS 10 will autoplay silent videos and pause those with sound, a change that enables automatic playback of GIFs — at least those converted to video — while halting potentially disruptive content like ads.

AppleInsider Staff 9 years ago 10

Apple's Safari browser turns 13 years old today

Steve Jobs unveiled the "Fastest Web Browser Ever Created for the Mac" this day back in 2003, introducing the Safari web browser that four years later would power a new kind of mobile browsing experience on iPhone.

Daniel Eran Dilger 10 years ago 19

Last minute leaks suggest Apple will discuss CarPlay, WebKit at WWDC keynote

With just hours to go before Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stage at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, two of the company's talking points may have been revealed after new Apple code appeared in the open-source WebKit project and cars were spotted on display in the Moscone Center.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 24

WebKit releases new SunSpider 1.0 benchmark to chart the future of JavaScript performance

Apple's WebKit team has released a revamped new SunSpider 1.0 benchmark suite for profiling the performance of web browser JavaScript execution, replacing the 0.9 version initially released at the end of 2007.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 17

Google forks WebKit with new 'Blink' rendering engine for Chrome

Google on Wednesday announced it will be forking the Apple-backed WebKit to create Blink, a rendering engine that will power the search giant's Chromium initiative, and consequently the Chrome Web browser, moving forward.

Mikey Campbell 13 years ago 137

Apple, Google nearly tied as top contributors to WebKit as adoption expands

Apple still contributes the greatest number of 'reviewed commits' enhancing its open source WebKit browser engine, but Google is nearly tied in contributions while an active and expanding community assist.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 37

Apple apparently kills Windows PC support in Safari 6.0

With the launch of Safari 6.0 for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and the release of a 6.0 update for existing Safari users on OS 10.7 Lion, Apple appears to have shelved efforts to continue developing Safari for Windows.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 84

Briefly: Adobe PDF on iOS; Lion security; WebKit trademark

Adobe has released a new application that allows PDF file conversions in iOS. Also, a security issue related to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol has been discovered in Mac OS X Lion. Finally, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is opposing Apple's application for the WebKit trademark.

Chris Smith 14 years ago 18

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