Comments on: Faster, Safari! Kill! Kill!

By: Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:14:51 +0000

John, you can run the tests yourself. ReadWriteWeb did its test.

By: Safari 4 Beta is out for Download and Apple is Over Promoting it

Safari 4 Beta is out for Download and Apple is Over Promoting it — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:13:26 +0000

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By: John Stagaman

John Stagaman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:37:35 +0000

The most surprising part of the update to me is that the Windows version of Safari now looks and functions like a native Windows application. I haven’t seen that mentioned in the coverage of the beta so far, but it is on the Apple Safari 4 information site.

For me, it’s both good and bad: it makes the browser behavior more predicable for Windows users, but since I use both Macs and Windows, I liked that Safari 3 worked basically the same way on both platforms.

By: John Paczkowski

John Paczkowski — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:20:53 +0000

Two things, Bjorn.

- Apple’s claims have not been independently verified, hence the caveat.

- The first sentence of the post says — explicitly — that I find the browser to be quite fast.

By: Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:00:43 +0000

No but seriously, Apple is usually full of it. :D

By: Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:58:23 +0000

So you raise doubt on a claim not only without presenting any kind of evidence, but with wrong incorrect information. The speed claims are made by Webkit, the open source project that develops the engine the browser uses. If you read their blog you’d know that “Nitro” is actually SquirrelFish Extreme, and if you were an engineer and could read the actual source code and understand the benchmark speed test results you’d know that the speed improvements are very impressive. If you read the Apple press release you see that they mention the speed tests used to support their claim on.

You make a baseless claim with an undeserved air of indignation. You know some people actually contribute to making this world a better place by creating stuff. Some people work in teams and toil through months or years of labor and build products that enable others. The stark contrast are people that create nothing, but write and say empty things that contribute nothing.