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Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7"
CNETNate writes "Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is '30 times faster than IE7,' and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include 'Top Sites,' which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, 'Full History Search' for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while."
High five apple! You've managed to steal the good functions from other browsers and claim to innovative. Top sites from Chrome (and Opera) and Full History from Opera! To top it all off you compare the speed to IE7 (the slowest browser) on a sub-par benchmarking system. Way to make yourselves look legit. Stay tuned for Apple's next Safari release in which they'll come up with the innovative idea to allow user made extensions to the browser.
The problem is that we don't KNOW what Apple is keeping to themselves. It may be the juicy bits, or it may just be roughage, but we don't know.
And here on slashdot, that recipe is sure to bring out the tinfoil hat crowd.
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Nice. Webkit is based on KHTML, and there's no way to get a Linux build. Thanks for all your help, Apple!
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
Why do I care about your lousy browser? If it only runs on Mac and PC, it is not a serious browser. The Linux browser market is expanding due to netbooks and phones.
Screw Apple. I always though iTunes was a pretty crappy program. It performs poorly, crashes often, and was always behind its competitors in terms of features.
Why bother supporting Safari? If I want enthusiasts and casual users to support my site, I only need to code for IE and Firefox. Firefox has better plugins anyway.
Speed? Firefox 3.1 is pretty fast, We'll have to see just how fast Safari 4 is when both Firefox 3.1 and Safari 4 are officially released. I doubt Safari will be much faster than Firefox 3.1 on Windows.
Think Differently? I don't see any difference between Apple and MS these days. They both try to tie you into proprietary formats and do a piss poor job of supporting other operating systems. IE runs poorly on Mac and (relatively) well on Windows, Safari barely ran on Windows and was well supported on Mac. I don't see how Apple is any better. They're just Microsoft in a prettier dress.
None of that matters. The only thing that does is the fastest x86 was ALWAYS faster than the fastest PPC CPU.
Wrong. The G5 mopped the floor with the Pentium IV's for a long time.
The G4 was faster than the early Pentium 3's that were around when it debuted. It lost its edge for a while but the newer DDR-based G4's are certainly no slouch.
The G3 kicked the Pentium II's ass.
Clock-for-clock performance benchmarks do matter. So does efficiency. Intel sucked until the Core series. And surprise.... my old 1.42Ghz G4 w/ DDR RAM is FASTER than the first intel 1.83GHz core solo-based mac mini. Even though the core solo is much newer.
It only "doesn't matter" to some punk kid who just wants to play games whose mommy and daddy are loaded and don't mind the sound of a jet engine in their living room.
Core and Core 2 are definitely huge improvements but that doesn't mean the Intel instruction set isn't awful.
As for the PPC being a "cleaner" architecture, that is only your opinion. I prefer x86/x64.
x64 cleans some things up but straight x86 is awful. Not a matter of opinion. A matter of cold hard facts. If you did much ASM and had to deal with Intel CPU's pretty close to the metal, you would realize how bad it is. Especially if you ever dealt with other architectures like m68k.
SPARC and PowerPC are much cleaner architectures than x86 will ever be.