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Latest Safari 10 features

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Safari’s IndexedDB implementation now fully supports the recommended standard.

It's been a long time coming, but this is pretty awesome! Although after their previous IndexedDB implementation, I'm still feeling a bit of "trust but verify".

Oh finally, inline videos are enabled. Took a long time!

    When the webkit-playsinline property is specified,
    Safari on iPhone allows videos to play inline.
    Videos without the property will commence playback in
    fullscreen, but users can pinch close on the video to
    continue playing the video inline.
    
    On iOS, videos without audio tracks or with disabled
    audio tracks can play automatically when the webpage loads.

Wow, this is a huge release! Does this mean Safari supports ES6 modules now? Also, how did the Nitro team resolve the issues that the V8 team faced when implementing tail call optimization (tooling broke when they implemented it, so I believe they were investigating a Scala-style annotation to opt in).

Yes—https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-....

> The ECMAScript 2015 standard, also known as ES6, is completely supported, bringing this major JavaScript evolution to Safari on OS X and iOS.

when will apple figure it out that releasing a version per year is bad for everybody. chrome and firefox work seamlessly with continuous updates.

This is actually the second major release of Safari in calendar 2016; there was 9.3 had a bunch of features back in March: https://webkit.org/blog/6008/new-web-features-in-safari/.

And of course Apple has also been shipping Safari Technology Preview every two weeks since March 30th: https://webkit.org/blog/6017/introducing-safari-technology-p... that updates via the Mac App store, in addition to the WebKit Nightlies.

Many of the JavaScript and web features have already shipped in the Tech Preview versions of Safari; the new ones will likely show up in the next Safari Tech Preview. Features that rely on macOS Sierra frameworks won't work on El Capitan obviously.

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