Along with the many other features for web apps on iOS and iPadOS 16.4, WebKit now includes support for the W3C’s Badging API. This straightforward API allows web developers to badge the icon of a web app. This article explores the various features of the Badging API and how to use it, and our ongoing collaboration with W3C’s Web Applications Working Group to improve the specification. Home Screen

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 Maps, OffscreenCanvas, Media Queries Range Syntax, @property, font-size-adjust, Declarative Shadow DOM

As a web developer, you’ve probably noticed that certain APIs only work if an end-user clicks or taps on an HTML element. For example, if you try to run the following code in Safari’s Web Inspector, it will result in an error: await navigator.share({ text: "hi" }); NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context, possibly because the user denied

On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub. Why git? git’s distributed nature makes it easy for not just multiple developers, but multiple organizations to collaborate on a single project. git’s local record of changes makes moving commits between branches or reverting changes simple and quick. git’s

People often see passwords are the original sin of authentication on the web. Passwords can be easy to guess and vulnerable to breaches. Frequent reuse of the same password across the web makes breaches even more profitable. As passwords are made stronger and unique, they can quickly become unusable for many users. Passwords indeed look notorious, but are passwords themselves the problem, or is it