598: Jen Simmons on Interop, WebKit Releases, and New CSS Features in Safari

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4.8 • 625 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Show DescriptionJen Simmons, Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & WebKit, stops by to talk about what Interop is, and a look ahead at new CSS features in Webkit and Safari such as JPEG XL, masks, a round function, JavaScript improvements, styling form controls, content unblocks, masonry, and more! Listen on Website →GuestsJen SimmonsGuest's Main URL • Guest's Social Apple Evangelist on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari & @webkit. Member of CSS Working Group. Links Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc Apple Developer JPEG - JPEG XL WebKit Bugzilla Main Page SponsorsJam.devYou’ve probably heard of Jam.dev, it’s used by more than 60,000 people. It’s a free tool that saves developers a ton of frustration. It forces your teammates to make the perfect bug report. They can’t do it wrong because it automatically includes a video of the bug, console logs, network requests, everything you need to debug. It automatically lists out the steps to reproduce. It’s so easy to get your teammates to use. It’s just a Chrome extension. When they see a bug, they click a button and right away it creates a ticket. So it saves time for them.

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0:00.0	Hey there's Shabbling to another episode of the Shop Talk Show. I'm Dave Rupert with me as Chris Coyer. Hey, Chris, how are you doing today?
0:29.3	Fantastic. Thanks for having me, Dave. And Chris, love the show.
0:32.2	It wouldn't be a January in ShopTock land without our special friend, Jen Simmons. Hey, Jen, how are you?
0:40.5	Hello. Is this a January thing? January. We call it January officially. Oh, January. January.
0:48.5	January. No, I just, I was like, do we talk to Jen every January?
0:55.5	I think we do, but I don't know for sure.
0:57.8	I haven't looked through the archives.
0:59.6	Unplanned, let's say.
1:00.6	But it's great to have you on because it's, you know, it's your pet Apple now.
1:04.6	Kind of a big deal.
1:05.7	Not exactly easy to get you, you Apple people.
1:09.1	So thanks for taking the time.
1:10.7	I'm happy. Thrilled to be here.
1:12.3	Wonderful. And you're just a long time champion for the web all over the place. So I'm
1:17.5	sure we're going to end up getting into all kinds of web platform features. That's our plan
1:21.8	anyway. And like what's going on all around the web and then specifically at WebKit and Safari,
1:28.3	because that's your expertise.
1:30.3	Great. So here's the plan, everybody.
1:32.3	We're going to end up talking about interop because Jen's involved in that,
1:35.3	and it's just an amazing thing that exists in the web.
1:39.3	Then we're going to end up talking about Safari releases,
1:42.3	especially the big December release that kind of just happened because it was a big one and maybe you should know about it.
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