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Safari beats Firefox at JavaScript rendering, and IE, of course…

by Nicholas Montgomery on Jun 22, 2008 at 09:24 PM

Firefox 3 may have beaten Apple’s Safari in several tests, but Safari is still the best browser in the market at JavaScript. Webkit recently adopted the SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter, and we can definitely see a speed increase. The current build of Webkit and Safari 3.1.1 are ahead of both Firefox… Continue Reading »

Apple seeds Safari 4 to developers

by Mark Rowland on Jun 10, 2008 at 03:45 PM

Amidst all the Mac OS X 10.6 Hype, Apple has officially seeded Safari 4 to developers. This new version focuses on performance and stability. Using the Squirrelfish program with WebKit, Apple says Safari 4 will be “the fastest implementation of JavaScript ever, increasing performance by 53 percent, making Web 2.0… Continue Reading »

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