725: Safari is the New Chrome - Jen Simmons of Apple

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Wes and Scott talk with Jen Simmons about the latest updates to Safari, reporting bugs to Apple, understanding color in CSS, new CSS switch controls, and testing your websites in Vision Pro hardware. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:03 Brought to you by Sentry.io 01:05 Meet Jen Simmons. 03:15 Safari has been killing it lately Safari Release Notes WebKit Features in Safari 17.0 WebKit Features in Safari 17.1 WebKit Features in Safari 17.2 10:25 Wes’ cOnSpirACy about Apple and APIs 18:18 Where is the best place to report bugs to Apple? Bugs.Webkit.org Jen on Mastodon Web Compat 20:35 What’s happening with CSS Color gamuts and models? 33:57 Is contrast color ever going to to land? 36:25 Where is the CSS Grid and Masonry proposal at? 44:20 Will we be able to target a specific row in a grid? 46:17 What are CSS switch controls? 48:44 How can web devs view their websites in Vision Pro devices? Apple Vision Pro Running your app in Simulator or on a device 54:26 In what ways are HTML / CSS / JavaScript running where we don’t realize it? 58:43 Sick Picks Sick Picks Jen: Walking. Shameless Plugs Jen: webkit.org X Feedback Assistant at Apple Sessions - WWDC23 - Apple Developer Webkit Standards Positions Safari Technology Preview Safari Technology Preview Release Notes What’s new in CSS at WWDC23 Rediscover Safari developer features at WWDC23 What’s new in Web Apps at WWDC23 Meet Safari for spatial computing at WWDC23 Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax! We've got a good one for you today. Let's talk about Century real quick.
0:05.6	This podcast is brought to you by Century. Century does error exception, performance insights.
0:11.9	Check it out. Century.io
0:13.0	forward slash syntax. We have been trying to get today's guest on for a long
0:18.8	long time and you folks have been requesting her for a long long time so we're very excited to have
0:25.4	Jen Simmons on she is a web technologies evangelist at Apple she is responsible for a
0:32.4	large part of CSS grid, a lot of the layout stuff in the browser.
0:36.0	Lots of CSS and we can go on about what she works on, but today she's here to talk to us about some really neat stuff in CSS web
0:47.2	standards in general as well as like Safari has been killing it lately and
0:52.3	we're here to ask her why that is and how they're able to move so fast and all that good stuff.
0:59.2	So welcome Jen, thanks so much for coming on.
1:01.2	Hello, I'm so glad to be here.
1:03.3	Thank you for inviting me.
1:05.2	You want to give us a quick rundown of who you are,
1:07.8	what you do in a little bit of your history?
1:09.4	I know I gave a quick run down,
1:11.0	but I think it would be worth explaining to anyone who maybe
1:14.7	hasn't heard of you what your past has been like. Sure yeah so personally I worked
1:19.4	in theater in the arts for years then I was a front-end developer, web designer and
1:24.7	developer for many years and then I got into, because I love teaching, I've
1:29.2	always loved teaching and empowering people, got into
1:34.3	developer advocacy,
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