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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 111

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> Fixed autocapitalize="words" capitalizing every word’s second character

Oops! This reminds me of the Jeff Atwood quote:

There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096?l...

This bug has been a pain for our users on iOS/iPadOS 13 typing first/last names.

JOhn DOe

Why would you even force a specific name writing convention on the user?

I really hate it when websites change the way I am writing my own name. Some sites use similar solutions to goof up my last name. Nothing worse than getting letters or emails from then were they write your name wrong. Hard to take them seriously.

Based on customer feedback, they wanted their contacts to have consistent capitalization. Before, users were adding names in all lowercase, etc. Note that it doesn’t enforce only the first letter is capitalized, they can adjust it as they please. For example: McDonalds would work fine.

That would be Leon Bambrick.

This just looks like a few bug fixes and minor changes, I'm not sure what's noteworthy about this.

https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/263992/webkit/

A specific set of sites with hardcoded references in Webkit? Maybe it's just me, but I find that really weird.

> This patch not only adds the capability but also adds a site-specific quirk for the family of Kinja sites so that no previous user interaction with kinja.com results in a login popup for kinja.com.

> No new tests. This is for site-specific quirks.

> dom/Element.cpp: (WebCore::Element::dispatchMouseEvent):

> Just a change in the call into the quirk function.

> page/Quirks.cpp: (WebCore::Quirks::isKinjaLoginAvatarElement const):

> Convenience function for telling if the given element is the Kinja login avatar.

> (WebCore::Quirks::triggerOptionalStorageAccessQuirk const):

> Now takes the whole Element to be able to look at both classes and attributes.

Yep, that’s strange

What's special about this? They release a new Technology Preview every 2 weeks or so.

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