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4. #SHOULD I TURN OFF EXPERIMENTAL WEBKIT FEATURES WINDOWS#

A browser - and, indeed, any application that incorporates the linkable framework of that browser - must place an equal emphasis on standards promotion and adoption, as well as accessibility. The profiler is a particular standout.Ī fast and pretty browser won’t cut it for me. Although these leave much to be desired relative to native tools, they deliver more than print() can. Thankfully, an integrated JavaScript console, debugger, and profiler have been added to WebKit. (These three screen images show the Acid3 reference rendering, the Safari 4 beta run, and the Firefox 3 run a test run must produce a pixel-accurate duplicate of the reference rendering in order to pass.) Without that, we’re stuck with the esoteric (but independent) Scalable Vector Graphics and the extremely resource-intensive (and proprietary) Flash. The acid test Safari/WebKit is the first browser to pass the Acid3 test for compatibility and completeness of a browser’s implementation of CSS version 3. That’s a facility that needs work overall.

I wish that these features were available to scan bookmarks as well. When the RSS for a page is updated, an indicator lights up for that thumbnail. The sites you visit most often can be displayed as a matrix of thumbnails when Safari 4 launches, and pages in your history can be leafed through in Cover Flow. URL matches are taken from Safari’s history. The most likely matches show in a drop-down list populated by Google. WebKit, nee Safari 4 beta, has a facility for examining and structuring tables and fields.įield fill-in for URLs and keyword searches are attempted with each keystroke, for both the URL and search fields. The information and Web apps traditionally only available when you’re linked to the network can be accessed locally. It’s the first desktop release to support the local database features of HTML 5. Other features make Safari 4 flat irresistible.

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You can download Safari 4 beta, and browse features and screen images, at Apple’s Safari site. (See the Lab Notes blog for my results.) With Apple’s backing and a quick chain for distributing updates, Safari is a browser you need to have. In my runs of the SunSpider benchmark, Safari 4 beta skunked Firefox, which is the primary browser for POSIX platforms.

Mozilla and Microsoft should challenge the results if they feel their browsers are misrepresented. Note that the benchmark resides on WebKit’s site. The SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark suite is freely available online, where you can test any browser you like. To do the fastest browser takes the fastest JavaScript, but also quick server communication.Īpple’s “fastest browser” boast is proved by SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark tests against Firefox 3.0.5, both running on OS X Leopard 10.5.6. JavaScript is the “j” in “AJAX,” so is responsible for first page draw latency. WebKit calls its boosted JavaScript SquirrelFish, not exactly glossy brochure material. Racing JavaScript A key feature - if not the key feature - in Safari 4 beta, is the SquirrelFish/Nitro JavaScript interpreter. Steve Jobs spoke of this at the iPhone announcement. The safe, supported WebKit and its vastly accelerated JavaScript interpreter will move developers to shift more applications to the Web. That’s essential added value given that WebKit joins Core Data, Core Animation, and other Apple frameworks that provide developers with one way, a right way, to incorporate any application feature. Safari is WebKit frozen at a stable release, validated, supported (except for betas), and documented by Apple.

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Those builds are released as source and as Windows and OS X executables that users are not warned away from, but encouraged to use.

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When I launch WebKit.app, the menu bar shows the name “Safari.” WebKit is Safari, plus everything the independent WebKit project folds into its nightly builds. There is another program in the Applications folder named Safari.app. The default browser on all of my Macs is named WebKit.app. The common belief is that Safari is effectively a front-end wrapper for WebKit. It’s at that point that the relationship between Safari and WebKit becomes hazy. You likely also know that Safari is implemented using WebKit, an open source framework for embedded HTML clients.

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You might be aware that OS X and Windows editions of Safari are released in parity, function identically, and are updated automatically through Apple Software Update in response to security and stability issues. Safari rose to greater recognition as the iPhone’s touchy-feely Web 2.0 client. It’s the only browser that ships with OS X, in the same manner that Internet Explorer is the de facto browser for Windows.