In plain English this means Mac users can look forward to video streaming and playback of 4K video files at high quality, while reducing the size of these files by around 40 percent in comparison with H.264. HEVC (H.265)Īpple’s next OS supports HEVC (H.265). The potential of the standard goes much further than this, as explained here. A company called BlueJeans is building solutions that will work with this implementation, enabling immediate video conferencing with zero downloads across all major browsers. Safari also introduces support for Web RTC, which will enable Web-based video conferencing through the browser. This strips most extraneous elements from the story you are looking at and provides you with a clear, easy-to-read rendering of the page you’re on. When enabled, when you visit that website you’ll automatically access it in Safari’s Reader View. You can enable this for every site you visit, or just for some. Reader Mode is interesting – though it is likely to be quite bad news to traditional website advertising models. These include things like content blockers and Reader Mode, as well as Page Zoom, Auto-Play, Camera, Microphone and Location sharing settings. Safari has also introduced a collection of website management settings. “Many users feel that trust is broken when they are being tracked and privacy-sensitive data about their web activity is acquired for purposes that they never agreed to.” Site-based settings If you’ve ever used Ghostery then you will know just how prevalent such tracking tech has become online.Īpple explains a little more about how this works on its WebKit blog:
This doesn’t prevent any reputable ad services, but does help protect your privacy online. Intelligent Tracking Prevention uses built-in machine AI to reduce cross-site tracking by identifying and limiting cookies and other website data. Spiced with a little machine intelligence, Apple has moved to prevent wholesale tracking of user browser activity. Settings for this feature are stashed in Safari Preferences>Websites. For example, if you enjoy the video on a site you can set it to Allow All Auto-Play, Never Auto-Play, and/or Stop Media with Sound. High Sierra takes this one step further, allowing you to prevent every site from doing this, or enabling sites on a per-site basis. Apple has already taken steps to curtail this kind of obstructive experience – Sierra lets you disable the volume of such clips on a tab-by-tab basis. One of the most popular improvements, Autoplay Blocking prevents websites from automatically playing video at you when you visit them. Speaking at WWDC, Apple’s Craig Federeghi claimed the browser to be an impressive 80 percent faster in JavaScript performance, promising performance will be even further enhanced when High Sierra ships. Performance enhancedĪpple claims its browser “significantly” outperforms Chrome and Firefox in benchmark tests. Enterprise users can also look forward to friction-free cross-platform video conferencing with the release. Coming soon in High Sierra, Apple has packed the next edition of its Safari 11 browser with interesting new tools and features you’ll need to know about, with speed improvements alone once again making it a strong competitor to Chrome.
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