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How Do Browsers Scale?
An anonymous reader writes "Benchmarking browsers is a somewhat silly exercise, since scores cannot be replicated on a variety of hardware, and it is not uncommon for even the same system to fail to replicate benchmarks scores, especially in JavaScript tests in two succeeding runs. The guys over at ConceivablyTech have an interesting approach, running browsers through multiple tests on different sets of hardware (including an Android smartphone), and showing the scaling differences between browsers when you are using a dual-core netbook on the low-end and a six-core desktop on the high-end. They also tested HTML5 on Firefox mobile and found the browser has better HTML5 support than the current Firefox 4 Beta 6."
durrrrr javascript has as much to do with java as the i,robot movie had to do with the book
I was surprised by that, too. Dual-Core is my high end, with a PIII on the low end.
Cool. So what's the weather like in Uganda, this time of year?
why did javascript become the defacto client-side scripting language
I think it had something to do with the Normans invading England in 1066. The Normans liked coffee, and the English were writing all these scripts, which would ultimately become Shakespeare's plays. Then the French and some Latins got involved. After that they built a navy and used it to create a global empire which spread--what? Javascript you say? Not English? Sorry. Nevermind.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Wet with a chance of noisy lines & 24k dialup.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
(Dr. Emmett Brown, Back to the Future part 1)
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form sparkbrowser.com
Sparkbrowser is the fastest browser based on loading pages with various jevascript and flash comonenets as well as html and html5 pages.
[...]
Sparkbrowser tracks your clicks, and search preferences to give you a better more personalized browsing eperience.
If you are weary of your privacy and believe that sparkbrowser has invaded your privacy, you probably should have read the terms of use before you downloaded it.
Looks promising...
Come on, you must be joking :
jevascript and flash comonenets, [...] It is drawn from components og Gecko and Webkit, [...] but enough of the techicalities,
[...] feature fo Sparkbrowser is [...] unlike Internet Exploere [...] eperience.
Etc etc.
If they write code as they write English, I for sure will never ever get this on any of my disks. Not being a native speaker certainly isn't an excuse for such gross editing, when you aim at being a world-class browser. And no, I'm definitely not a native speaker, I'm French, and we are supposed to have the crappiest English level in the world (and as a people, we most certainly do).