Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 244

*Apple updated its experimental browser with fixes spanning accessibility, rendering, security, and several web standards.*

Apple released Safari Technology Preview 244 on May 21. The build carries fixes and updates across more than twenty areas of the browser, from CSS and JavaScript to WebGPU and WebAssembly.

The Safari Technology Preview program began in March 2016. Its purpose is to give developers an early look at features Apple plans to ship in later versions of the main Safari browser. Users install the preview from Apple’s website and can run it alongside the release version on macOS Tahoe.

The release notes list changes in Accessibility, Animations, CSS, Forms, HTML, Images, JavaScript, MathML, Media, Networking, Rendering, SVG, Scrolling, Security, Storage, Web API, Web Extensions, Web Inspector, WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU. No new features are highlighted; the update focuses on stability and performance work.

Reactions

No third-party developer commentary has appeared yet. Apple simply points users to the full release notes hosted on the Safari Technology Preview site.

Why it matters

Web developers who target Safari gain a concrete checkpoint for testing layout, media, and security behavior before those changes reach stable releases. Regular preview drops like this reduce the size of surprises when Apple ships the next major Safari update to hundreds of millions of devices.

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Sources:

• MacRumors

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