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interactive-widget lands in WebKit: three ways to react when the keyboard opens

WebKit has implemented the interactive-widget viewport meta directive, giving pages a hand-authorable choice between resizing the visual viewport, resizing the layout viewport, or leaving both alone when a virtual keyboard appears.

Sep 12, 2026 · Iris Calderón Browser releases

Safari Technology Preview 252 adds @supports named-feature(), unprefixed user-select and two accessible-name fixes

WebKit's 11 September preview adds a named-feature() function to @supports, exposes CSSConditionRule.supports and CSSMediaRule.matches on the CSSOM, ships the unprefixed user-select property, allows percentage values in text-decoration-inset, and cleans up two accessible-name bugs around display: contents and list markers.

Sep 12, 2026 · Yuki Tanaka Browser releases

Safari 27 rewrites the module loader to fix top-level await

WebKit engineer Kai Tamkun explains that Safari 27 replaces the old self-hosted JavaScript module loader with a C++ translation of the ECMAScript spec, closing an ordering bug that could make dynamic imports of a top-level-awaiting module finish out of sequence.

Sep 11, 2026 · Yuki Tanaka Browser releases

Safari Technology Preview 251 lands @supports at-rule(), random() with caching, corner-shape and object-view-box

WebKit's 26 August preview adds an at-rule test to @supports, property-scoped caching on random(), the random-item(), ident() and inherit() functions, the corner-shape and object-view-box properties, comma-separated @container conditions, white-space-trim in the white-space shorthand, and HighlightRegistry.highlightsFromPoint().

Sep 7, 2026 · Iris Calderón Browser releases

Safari Technology Preview 250 lands SVG on the clipboard, text-decoration-inset, and a VoiceOver textarea fix

WebKit's 13 August preview adds five CSS lines (text-decoration-inset, white-space-trim, wrap-inside, content on ::marker, and a spaces value on ruby-overhang), Clipboard API read and write for image/svg+xml, a VoiceOver line-break repair on textarea, and a small deprecation — a dense build for hand-authored pages.

Aug 14, 2026 · Yuki Tanaka Browser releases

Safari Technology Preview 249 drops attr(), if(), @function, popover=hint and Temporal in one build

WebKit's July 29 preview stacks nine CSS additions, a new HTML popover value, the dialog closedby attribute, and the JavaScript Temporal object into a single release — one of the feature-densest STP drops of the year for hand-authored HTML and CSS.

Jul 30, 2026 · Dex Halloran Browser releases

Safari Technology Preview 248 gives progress() a no-clamp option and forwards missing components across analogous color spaces

WebKit's Safari Technology Preview 248 lands two CSS additions worth reading — a no-clamp option on the CSS progress() function and forwarding of missing color components when interpolating between analogous color spaces — plus a pair of accessibility repairs and a small stack of quieter CSS fixes.

Jul 23, 2026 · Iris Calderón Browser releases

Safari Technology Preview 247 lands calc-mix() and clears a scatter of small fixes

WebKit's July 1 preview build adds CSS calc-mix() under its New Features list, plus HTML spec-alignment repairs for align="center" and rel=preload as="json", two VoiceOver-facing accessibility fixes, and a MathML change for underover layout.

Jul 2, 2026 · Yuki Tanaka Browser releases

Safari Technology Preview 246 widens color, images and attr()

WebKit has shipped Safari Technology Preview 246 with a batch of CSS additions — light-dark() taking image values, image(<color>), alpha(), color-mix() with more than two colors, attr() on pseudo-elements, and preview support for font-variant-emoji and word-break: auto-phrase.

Jun 23, 2026 · Yuki Tanaka CSS & layout

Grid Lanes gets a Field Guide — and a fourth layout primitive to argue about

WebKit has published gridlanes.webkit.org, a Field Guide for the new display: grid-lanes layout primitive, with a playground, a cheat sheet and six demos pitting Grid Lanes against Flexbox, Multicolumn and Grid.

Jun 22, 2026 · Iris Calderón Browser releases

Safari 27 beta opens up the form control, scroll, and the cascade

WebKit has detailed the Safari 27 beta: 58 new web-platform features and 525 fixes, including customizable <select>, scroll anchoring, the :heading pseudo-class, and the revert-rule and stretch CSS keywords.

Jun 19, 2026 · Yuki Tanaka