Fermixalot
02-24-2009, 07:44 PM
Safari 4 (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10171145-2.html)
Google's latest version of Chrome has claimed the lead in my JavaScript speed tests, but Apple's new Safari 4 beta is the first browser to challenge it on Google's own performance benchmark.
JavaScript is a programming language that powers not just innumerable ordinary Web sites, but also many Web-based applications such as Google Docs. With the computing industry's major push to cloud computing, Web application performance is increasingly important, and there's a race on to see who's got the best JavaScript engine. JavaScript engines even have become a named feature, with Chrome's V8, Firefox's TraceMonkey, Opera's Futhark and upcoming Carakan, and now the Safari's newly branded Nitro, which is Apple's version of WebKit's Squirrelfish.
Anybody try it yet? I like it, but the "new" features have been around in a lot of other browsers, namely Opera, for ages. Though it is pretty, I do not like the decision to put the tabs on the top of the page instead of under the menu bar.
Comments?
Google's latest version of Chrome has claimed the lead in my JavaScript speed tests, but Apple's new Safari 4 beta is the first browser to challenge it on Google's own performance benchmark.
JavaScript is a programming language that powers not just innumerable ordinary Web sites, but also many Web-based applications such as Google Docs. With the computing industry's major push to cloud computing, Web application performance is increasingly important, and there's a race on to see who's got the best JavaScript engine. JavaScript engines even have become a named feature, with Chrome's V8, Firefox's TraceMonkey, Opera's Futhark and upcoming Carakan, and now the Safari's newly branded Nitro, which is Apple's version of WebKit's Squirrelfish.
Anybody try it yet? I like it, but the "new" features have been around in a lot of other browsers, namely Opera, for ages. Though it is pretty, I do not like the decision to put the tabs on the top of the page instead of under the menu bar.
Comments?