Matisyahu's Blog

I had a great day to day, got a text message from the courier company with the tracking number and it appears that it had arrived in wellington so I had the expectation of delivery on Wednesday but it didn’t work out . I’ll be getting up early on Thursday because I want to catch them before they arrive. If all that goes well then I’m going to put on my sneakers and exercise gear to then go for a long walk – getting back into exercise after being a bit lazy for a week and a bit.

There is some good news on the Webkit/Safari front with the focus of the next Safari release focusing on fixing up bugs, compatibility, compliance and under the hood optimisations (link) and along with that was the Safari Technology 245 release being made available (link). I’m looking forward to the release version 27 of Apple’s platforms because I have a feeling that one is going to have experience the changes first hand, that many of the improvements will require one to test it using websites one goes to rather than relying on what others have reported. I’ve been following the web platform test and the one thing to recognise that there is a big difference between implementing something and passing a test vs implementing it and it working in the real world. It is easy to charge ahead to implant something but if the implementation is broken hen it may as well not even exist. Something like over 500 bug fixes have ben made to Safari and some parts have been completely rewritten.

There is the developer beta however the one thing to keep in mind is that at this stage there is still plenty of changes that take place not to mention debugging code is included which can reduce performance. One thing to remember that in the beta process that the major heavy lifting has been done and during the beta cycle it is about fixing up reported bugs, putting on the finishing touches, addressing developer feedback regarding new features etc. If version 26 is anything to go by then I wouldn’t be surprised if we end ups seeing it being released around mid to late September but that is very much dictated by the progress being made – generally iOS gets released before to line up with the launch of a new iPhone and possibly an early release of tvOS to coincide with the rumoured Apple TV refresh.

Something I forgot to mention from the past blog I made regarding WWDC is how there is a big focus on optimisations. I guess that even if you’re not a Mac Neo user that you’ll get the benefit of Apple optimising their operating system for their new entry level operating system which will flow up to the higher specced devices. The following video gives a good overview on what one can look forward to: