The Rockhouse has been waiting somewhat less than patiently for Apple High Sierra because it solves some of the most irritating problems on the network and autoplays vides are high on the list for the worst of them.
First, there's confirmation of the release date on September 19 and this is excellent news for personal reasons which have nothing to do with computers.
We expect the final verison of macOS High Sierra to pop up on the Mac App Store around 19 September.
The Gold Master beta version is likely to become available following the Apple event on 12 September, you can follow our live blog of the Apple event here.
If you want to decide whether or not the upgrade is worth it, check out our Sierra vs High Sierra comparison review.
Macworld: macOS High Sierra release date, new features and compatibility
Note: there are multiple other significant upgrades to Apple's desktop computer software and that's been sparse for some while.
Safari
New features in Safari will help you personalise your experience when surfing the web. You can refine your settings for particular websites - making the text bigger for example on one site, or adjusting your location settings for another.
Apple is determined to make surfing the web a more pleasant experience, much to the dismay of advertisers as a result there will be no more auto-playing videos and no more cookies tracking your surfing habits and aiding advertisers who want to target ads to your interests.
- MW
Right away CNN hates it since they have been abusing the autoplay capability for years. Possibly Fox News would hate them more since that outfit has been converting to use autoplay videos over recent months.
But it gets better ...
What this means to users is that in macOS High Sierra, Safari automatically blocks audio and video on every site visited unless you specifically tell Safari that you want to hear the audio/video playback. Once you’ve ‘told’ Safari that a certain website can play audio and video, it should remember that the next time you visit the site (because who wants to enable it for every YouTube video they watch?).
- MW
Once High Sierra blocks audio / video for a site, it stays blocked. No hassles and that's simply the end of it.
One more to make it perfect.
As a final nail in the advertiser's coffin, Apple will make all pages that support Safari Reader appear thus in your browser - with ads stripped out. For more information read How to use the new features in High Sierra.
- MW
Zen Yogi: whoa, buddy ... business will hate them for doing this.
Only the ones with abusive advertising practices, Yogi. That probably doesn't give much cause for Apple to fret since the company is worth about a trillion dollars. If some company should give them any guff over doing this, Apple can buy them.
Zen Yogi: why should Apple buy Fox News since what possible use could the organization have from them.
In its current form as a vendor of predictable piffle and patronizing palaver, it would never be useful but how about if Apple dumps that lot of hidebound hypocrites calling themselves reporters and turns it into the Apple Social Network?
Zen Yogi: you were right the first time, Silas; you're crazy
Perhaps but one of the biggest nuisances of any exchange with a social network is most of the things you do must be typed which is only decades behind any current state of the art. In combination with an iPhone used as an intelligent remote, the exchanges could get much more sophisticated.
Zen Yogi: why should they do this just to enable other social network whose primary stocks in trade are selfies and cat pictures?
You're selling people short, my bear buddy, since people do that which the social network is capable of doing and right now it's not all that much. Moreover, an unseen value is the ASN could replace or front-end the Apple Store.
Zen Yogi: do you really believe this will happen?
Anything can happen, mate. Whether it does happen depends on how badly you want it and Apple wants a video channel for streaming entertainment video already. This idea may be more realistic than any of us suspect.
First, there's confirmation of the release date on September 19 and this is excellent news for personal reasons which have nothing to do with computers.
We expect the final verison of macOS High Sierra to pop up on the Mac App Store around 19 September.
The Gold Master beta version is likely to become available following the Apple event on 12 September, you can follow our live blog of the Apple event here.
If you want to decide whether or not the upgrade is worth it, check out our Sierra vs High Sierra comparison review.
Macworld: macOS High Sierra release date, new features and compatibility
Note: there are multiple other significant upgrades to Apple's desktop computer software and that's been sparse for some while.
Safari
New features in Safari will help you personalise your experience when surfing the web. You can refine your settings for particular websites - making the text bigger for example on one site, or adjusting your location settings for another.
Apple is determined to make surfing the web a more pleasant experience, much to the dismay of advertisers as a result there will be no more auto-playing videos and no more cookies tracking your surfing habits and aiding advertisers who want to target ads to your interests.
- MW
Right away CNN hates it since they have been abusing the autoplay capability for years. Possibly Fox News would hate them more since that outfit has been converting to use autoplay videos over recent months.
But it gets better ...
What this means to users is that in macOS High Sierra, Safari automatically blocks audio and video on every site visited unless you specifically tell Safari that you want to hear the audio/video playback. Once you’ve ‘told’ Safari that a certain website can play audio and video, it should remember that the next time you visit the site (because who wants to enable it for every YouTube video they watch?).
- MW
Once High Sierra blocks audio / video for a site, it stays blocked. No hassles and that's simply the end of it.
One more to make it perfect.
As a final nail in the advertiser's coffin, Apple will make all pages that support Safari Reader appear thus in your browser - with ads stripped out. For more information read How to use the new features in High Sierra.
- MW
Zen Yogi: whoa, buddy ... business will hate them for doing this.
Only the ones with abusive advertising practices, Yogi. That probably doesn't give much cause for Apple to fret since the company is worth about a trillion dollars. If some company should give them any guff over doing this, Apple can buy them.
Zen Yogi: why should Apple buy Fox News since what possible use could the organization have from them.
In its current form as a vendor of predictable piffle and patronizing palaver, it would never be useful but how about if Apple dumps that lot of hidebound hypocrites calling themselves reporters and turns it into the Apple Social Network?
Zen Yogi: you were right the first time, Silas; you're crazy
Perhaps but one of the biggest nuisances of any exchange with a social network is most of the things you do must be typed which is only decades behind any current state of the art. In combination with an iPhone used as an intelligent remote, the exchanges could get much more sophisticated.
Zen Yogi: why should they do this just to enable other social network whose primary stocks in trade are selfies and cat pictures?
You're selling people short, my bear buddy, since people do that which the social network is capable of doing and right now it's not all that much. Moreover, an unseen value is the ASN could replace or front-end the Apple Store.
Zen Yogi: do you really believe this will happen?
Anything can happen, mate. Whether it does happen depends on how badly you want it and Apple wants a video channel for streaming entertainment video already. This idea may be more realistic than any of us suspect.
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