@jensimmons Web Share Target API support for PWA:s so that I can easily replace a bookmark app like Raindrop / Pinboard with a PWA equivalent that I build myself 😌

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I hope to see an announcement of a "Snow Leopard" release for Safari and VoiceOver to squash accessibility bugs and a commitment to do better fixing future ones.

#a11y

@jensimmons evergreen Safari, updates independently from the OS

@jensimmons maybe standard Web Push in safari without that weird "you've gotta have an Apple developer account to use it" malarkey?

@jensimmons Overall I am happy with Safari, APIs it supports and the pace that it is moving recently. I would love to see some improvements to dev tools, that are WAY behind the competitors. Also, finally having iCloud bookmarks and Reading list sync fixed would be appreciated.

@jensimmons As many people as possible wearing masks.

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I hoping for css text-box-trim.

@jensimmons something that will give me faith Apple is committed to the open web. The temporary removal of PWAs in Europe really really made me loose faith. I'm sure you and the tram are, but is Apple at large?

@jensimmons style queries with custom properties, barcode detection API, and Houdini paint hitting stable are what I personally am hoping to see in Safari.

@jensimmons Safari stealing some of the good ideas from Arc 😌 don't want to change browser but hard to not look at arc theese days. If it wasn't chromium based It'd be even harder. Make Safari funky! But not in the inline-tabs-kinda-way 😅

@jensimmons would love to see focus fixed in safari
https://www.mayank.co/blog/safari-focus

@jensimmons longer support for old macos release. Latest version of chrome still support macos catalina.

@jensimmons A way for the user to configure custom search engines, and remove the paid-for defaults, like Google.

@jensimmons Scroll-driven Animations!

@jensimmons CSS Anchoring

@jensimmons WebGPU!

@jensimmons performance metrics in Safari. We don't know what the performance bottlenecks are for at least 50% of Shopify mobile traffic so we can't optimize for it

@jensimmons Honestly, just 2 hours of a tired looking man reading through all the MacOS Sonoma bugs they're finally going to fix.

@jensimmons Tuples and Records. A rotation lock api for homescreen web apps.

@jensimmons well.. something like « fetch » api from javascript

@jensimmons support of the is - attribute.

@jensimmons support for :host-context()

@jensimmons Support for extensions in web apps so installing one doesn’t mean giving up my password manager and ad blocker.

@jensimmons Apple committing to bringing parity between native and web apps.

@jensimmons I’m hoping iOS 18 will keep improving home screen web apps. As a baseline, they should have feature parity with Safari itself — two examples I was frustrated to bump into recently are lack of support for Picture in Picture and the Screen Wake Lock API.

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Fullscreen API in iOS Safari.
CSS Anchoring in all Safaris.
Scoped Custom Element Registries. https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/716
Cross Shadow Root Aria. https://github.com/WICG/aom/blob/gh-pages/reference-target-explainer.md
CSS Slot Content Detection. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6867
@​sheet API https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5629
Removal of the restriction on adoptedStyleSheets to only accept constricted Stylesheets. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10013

@jensimmons A macOS release focused on bug fixes and polishing features already in the OS.

@jensimmons All I want is to replace the words 'add to home screen' with 'install app name' and make it more prominent. It will never happen as Apple have a monopoly on the App Store and have taught users to look in the app store.

@jensimmons but I really appreciate you reaching out Jen.

@jensimmons Chrome's plugins are the reason I stay there. Safari plugin model is awful and needs to be updated.

@jensimmons Safari’s been my browser of choice since its introduction. It used to be part of my development environment too, but when the new dev tools shipped around the Bling fork, I had to switch to Chrome for development. I’d love to go back to using a Safari for everything.

@jensimmons - Add features for Web Push / Notif API that are currently not supported (icon, image, tag, close(), to name a few). Also, fix MDN (some of these features are listed as supported, but they are not). 16.4 brought a lot of good stuff, but not much was added/fixed since then unfortunately
- Navigation API
- Virtual Keyboard API
- Fullscreen API (iOS)

@jensimmons it'd be nice if Webkit would include the same accessibility semantics for popover that Firefox and Chromium have https://hidde.blog/popover-accessibility/

oh and hoping no LLMs will be added to the browser

@jensimmons browser choice coming to everyone instead of just Europe

@jensimmons Safari tech preview for iOS would be a big help. Also the ability to update the browser distinct from the OS (both iOS and macOS). While I know macOS *can* you never get the choice to on the OS latest version.

@jensimmons I hope to see lots of great new features for PWA’s. I want to see Electron become redundant, because macOS supports all the same features via native web API’s. Pretty sure that’s not gonna happen though 😅

@jensimmons I know this might be counterintuitive - but a robust iCloud bookmark sync extension for Chromium browsers, that reliably works on macOS. I love Safari on mobile, and I’m already hooked into the Apple ecosystem, but you don’t need to lock me into Safari too. A little love for those of us who like a bit of browser variety would go a long way 🙏

@jensimmons Same as the last year, AVIF or JXL with HDR, or JPEG with gainmaps. Please!

@jensimmons I’m hoping for:
1. Reliable local data storage
2. Minimal UI (no toolbars) for any website/web page according to user control
3. Web inspector reliability fixes on macOS
4. View source & debugging tools running directly on iPhone & iPad
5. CSS anchoring

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- proper profile support where closing and opening profiles where it doesn’t lose all the tabs
- tab notification support like other browsers, my outlook pinned tabs in chrome show a red dot when I get new emails
- reloading a page doesn’t make the inspector lose the js file I’m currently looking at when debugging.
- fixing issue where if I leave a tab opened on a site (such as dribbble), my air would start to heat up like an oven.

@jensimmons 1. You mentioned in a blog post 17 new Safari versions shipped over a 28 month span. Love it; keep it up.

2. I believe I saw somewhere that commits for Anchor Positioning have been spotted in the WebKit repo—yes please.

@jensimmons Scroll-driven animations

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An AI engine that will fully spec-out, write tests for, and implement HTML Modules.

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I would love to see support for the ":geo" URI scheme (`<a href="geo:lat,lon">Start navigation</a>`) in links to allow users to open addresses or coordinates in their preferred application. Just like it already works with `:tel` or `:mail`. Thank you 😊