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alberth 9 hours ago

The team has been on a roll lately with massive fixes & improvements.

Like last months announcement of over 500 fixes.

https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-saf...

ksec 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Safari beta is actually covering ~6 months of work in WebKit. So it isn't one release with 500 fixes. It is more of a consolidation.

But yes WebKit has been getting tons of feature gap and bug fixed in the past 2-3 years. I think it accelerated during Safari 17, and Safari 18 has been the release that I find it good enough for most cases and finally with no rendering issues on all the site I browse.

I have been trying to get the release note and update from Safari on HN frontpage but it never got much attention. Hopefully like you others will see how far Safari has come. And out of all the features coming from new macOS releases it has always been Safari that I am most looking forward to.

At the same time I still think it has some way to go before catching up to Firefox and Chrome is many areas. But at least it is improving fast.

bombcar 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They finally used some of those trillions to buy one (1) Claude pro subscription.

lern_too_spel 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It's because the EU is forcing competition on them for iOS Safari, and iOS Safari shares code with MacOS Safari. Now they have to at least try to keep up.

SaltyBackendGuy 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I am OOTL - How does the EU force competition in this context?

fragmede 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The EU passed laws to force Apple to allow other browser engines to run. Previously, all iOS browsers were reskinned WebKit by Apple decree.