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Not mentioned in the press release but this update also brings a new version of Safari (and WebView).

Anyone knows if Safari in 14.5 is equivalent to a specific Technology Preview release?

https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...

If only it included Web Push API capabilities. But of course, Apple won't do that, as then developers wouldn't have to beg to be in their app store, and pay a 30% commission on any payments.

I would have more respect for Apple if they just came out and said it, but the fact they haven't mentioned it at all, is just cowardly.

I specifically came into the comments to see about this, and am disappointed. It’s the biggest feature PWAs can provide and would really reduce the pressure to create native apps.

I hope they never enable it. Watching people in my life “use” that feature, I wouldn’t be surprised if well over half if web push messages are sent to people who don’t know how they got enabled, or how to disable them (they just clicked away an annoying pop-up on a site they’d never, ever want messages from, not realizing what they did)

I would have though the same, but of all people I know who use Android, this hasn't been an issue.

It’s mostly been desktop I’ve seen have this issue (including macOS). Maybe the UI is better on mobile so click-yes-to-make-the-annoying-popup-go-away-oops-now-you-get-push-messages isn’t an issue.

it would be cool if Safari finally got WebGL 2 enabled by default

Cool for the web, not so cool for the growth of Apple Arcade.

It's not like WebGL 2 is the crucial lynch pin blocking the viability of mobile web gaming... WebGL2 will have zero impact on Apple Arcade.

It's not in this version. I'm 50/50 on whether it will ever be enabled. If it's not enabled in iOS 15 around September then I'll raise my probability it will never be enabled to 90%. What incentive does Apple have for enabling it? 4 years ago when other browsers got it it was important. Now, with WebGPU 6-12 months from shipping there isn't much reason for them to ship a bunch of code to Safari that has to be maintained and tested forever. I know the code is already written and tested ATM, just pointing out why my probably that it won't ship is > 0.

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