Apple Seeds Safari Technology Preview 18


Following the release of Safari Technology Preview 17 just one week ago, the company has officially launched an all-new preview build of its web browser, Safari Technology Preview 18, to developers for download and testing.

Safari Technology Preview 18 includes several new features as well as other enhancements such as:

  • Turned on the Input Events experimental feature by default
  • Fixed an issue where exception descriptions didn’t know how to handle Symbol values
  • Added support for loading stylesheets for link elements that are inside Shadow DOM trees
  • Fixed a bug where Safari does not emit "compositionend" if blurred for dead key or Japanese IME
  • Fixed a crash that would happen when attempting to clear selection on ARIA listboxes
  • Made printing to PDF produce internal links when the HTML has internal links
  • Changed Safari’s HTTP authentication UI to not block switching tabs, navigating to other websites, or closing tabs
  • Updated Web Inspector
  • Updated CSS
  • Updated Indexed Database 2.0
  • Updated Web APIs
Safari Technology Preview 18, which is compatible with macOS Sierra 10.12, is now available to download through the Safari Dev Center for registered developers.

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