Matisyahu's Blog

I’m at the half way point of my shift and I thought it would be a good time to build upon what I posted previously. Over on Webkit.org there is a comprehensive list of changes that have occurred with Safari 26.4 (link) with the cumulative effect being that the over all responsiveness and speed is noticeable when compared to the previous version. For me, my focus aren’t on the new wiz bang features that get the headlines but having those basics done well so then what I want to do becomes the focus rather than having to focus on trying to get the software to be have the way I want it to. There appears to be a lot of under the hood optimisations such as ‘Threaded Scroll-driven Animations’ which should translate to improved responsiveness. I could imagine there is a lot of work occurring behind the scenes that we may not see until version 27 since those changes are probably pretty disruptive. Safari Technology Preview 240 hasn’t been released yet but I’d say it’ll be released in the next few days – looking out for it to be posted on the website.

Apple announced Apple Business (link) which appears to provide a platform similar to what Google and Microsoft provides but I have a feeling that the main focus of Apple Business will be around integrating Apple devices together rather than a heterogenous environment. There are a list of features that will be available for each region with not all regions having the same level of functionality (link) but I think that is due in part to having to build out the infrastructure and launching it when it is ready rather than ‘moving fast, breaking things’. It’ll be interesting to see what the details are when it launches on 14 April regarding the number of aliases that will be allowed because I couldn’t imagine the Apple Business service sticking to the 3 aliases currently on offer with the iCloud+ service at the moment.