Developer Discovers Private Apple CSS Property for Liquid Glass Web Effects
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Summary
A web developer shares their discovery of a private CSS property in Apple's WebKit repository that enables Liquid Glass effects for web content. The author explains their routine of monitoring WebKit changelogs to stay ahead of iOS webview developments, expressing frustration with Apple's lack of official announcements about features like Service Worker support in WKWebView.
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I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next version of iOS.
Since Tim Cook has yet to stand up at WWDC and announce 'one more thing... Service Worker support in WKWebView'
manual research is the order of the day.
I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next ver
