Safari Technology Preview 255 lands with select-button styling and SVG text work

Release 255 previews the button element inside native select appearance, the textPath side attribute, and a long line-clamp fix batch.

Published October 22, 20263 min readHandmade on the workshop bench

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Safari Technology Preview 255 arrived October 22 for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe. The preview channel is where WebKit lands standards work weeks or months before a Safari release ships it, and 255 shows the pattern well.

Inside 255

A button element is now supported in the native appearance of the select element, another step for customizable select.
SVG textPath gained the side attribute, and the new inline layout engine is enabled for SVG text.
A large batch of fixes; a theme through the list is the line-clamp work, with more than a dozen clamp-related corrections.

If you maintain an odd layout that fights the UA stylesheet, the preview is the honest place to test: file a bug while the code is still fresh and you shape the next stable instead of filing against last year's decision. Free for the taking, and gacor for standards watchers.

Safari Technology Preview 255 lands with select-button styling and SVG text work

Inside 255

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