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| More on Apple Webkit updates (improving Browser Compatibility as well as performance) |
| One of the readers that had previously sent notes/tests with nightly Webkit updates dramatically improving performance (benchmark scores) sent a FYI about compatibility improvements with them as well:
"While everyone is marveling at how fast Chrome is at passing its own Javascript tests, I decided to see how compatible it is with the rest of the web, by running it against the Acid3 test, at http://acid3.acidtests.org/.
WebKit nightly build (any of them in the last 3 months) gets 100/100 compatibility with the web standards, and thus passes the tests.
Chrome (0.2.149.29, build 1798) gets 79/100, and fails the test.
Safari 3.1.2 gets 75 (and fails)
Firefox gets 71 (but doesn't fail)
Opera 9.5.4 gets 84 and fails
AFAIK, the only browser that passes the test, on any platform, is the nightly build of WebKit for the Mac.
Cordially, Tracy V."
I've also added this as a FYI to the page on Browser benchmarks.
(Shortly after posting this a reader replied that Safari 4.0 Developer Preview (5528.1) also passed the test with a 100/100. There's also a couple earlier reports from Safari 4.0 dev. preview/beta users on the Browser Benchmarks page.) |
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