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simonmet

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Sep 9, 2012
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Can anyone explain these “experimental” WebKit features?

Is anyone using them and if so why?

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I guess these just enable web developers to try out new features to embed in their webpages. Thus they can prepare their websites for future technologies and in later iOS / macOS revisions these will be enabled by default. Also they might be additionally included in some HTML / Web Standard eventually.

As a user, you won't be able to see much of a difference unless the websites you visit specifically supports one of these features. This possibly holds true for CSS-related functions, you might however see some performance improvements when enabling WebGPU or Async Frame Scrolling.
 
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