Archive for the ‘Web browser’ Category

Safari 4 beta for Windows

Finally, Apple announced a new Safari web browser for MS Windows.
I downloaded one and tried using it on my Windows Vista x64 edition installed on my MacBook with Intel GMA chipset, which is a graphic chipset may people don’t like because they prefer nvidia’s.
It turned out that the Safari 4 beta was quite fast. On [...]

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CSS Animation : very easy and good explanation

CSS Animation is sometimes said to be Flash-replacement for certain areas. I doubt how flexible its animation can be : presentation flexibility, performance, resource usage, and so on.
The WebKit blog article introduces the CSS animation in very easy-reading style. Probably most of advertisement flash can be replaced with this CSS animation, and it would get [...]

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SquirrelFish Extereme!

As I summarized before, there are 3 strong players in the JavaScript engine field. Due to the Google’s chrome, how fast it is became quite a big issue. The WebKit people raised the bar even more yesterday by introducing SquirrelFish Extreme.
According tot their web site, the new engine is almost 2 times faster than the [...]

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JavaScript Performance : V8, Tracemonkey, SquirrelFish, IE8

     A few days ago, the Google announced a beta version of their web browser, called “Chrome”. 
     It has an interesting name, because the word, “Chrome”, is also used for the XML based GUI representation for the Firefox. Anyway, it looks to me that the Chrome, the Google’s web browser, is targeted for [...]

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About Firefox 3.0 and Camino

Recently I started using the Safari on my Mac more often than ever.Consequently I became to use the Firefox less frequently.What was the cause? I like the “Find-As-You-Type” and “multi-highlighter”, and other extensions for the Firefox a lot. (Oh.. The “Find-As-You-Type” of the Safari 3.0 is very cool, though. ) The Firefox provides better features [...]

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