Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Safari 3.0

The world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, appeared in 1990. Developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN using NeXTSTEP

I m agreed with you in another thread.

I was teen who saw my good friend's ex hubby playing on Hypercard he loves it I remember I visited him.

History is important to remember I never forget many years since 1986 when I have had Apple IIGS since.
 
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Safari is great for Mac, that what I use so often.

For bootcamp, I use firefox 2 on windows because Safari was hogged too much memory on windows and looks similar speed to Firefox 2.

Firefox 3 will be come out soon.
 
Safari is about to get crazy fast | Computerworld Blogs

February 8, 2008 - 4:58 P.M.

Safari is about to get crazy fast

TAGS:Apple, gecko, iPhone, ipod touch, khtml, Mac, Macintosh, safari, webkit

IT TOPICS:Desktop Applications, Macintosh & Apple, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet

When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised. Firefox was way more popular than the Konquerer browser and had a lot more open source developers on line.

Since then, Apple has really run with the KHTML engine, forking it off, renaming its development version "WebKit" and making it faster and leaner than Firefox on the Mac and both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the PC. While it doesn't have a lot of the functionality of Firefox Plug-ins and the ActiveX controls of IE, more and more support has been built around the Webkit engine as it gains in popularity. (Yes, Opera is very nice as well - especially the torrent downloading.)

The latest builds of WebKit are adding a great number of improvements that go beyond the "Catching up" that it has been doing in the past. These improvement can be broken down into two major areas. Features and speed. The features are certainly interesting and you can read about many of them here. I want to focus specifically on speed.

Safari vs. WebKit icons.

There is no other way to say it. Holy cow is this thing fast! I am currently testing Webkit build r30090 (DMG download link) against standard Leopard Safari 3.04. This unoptimized WebKit build version is running circles around the standard Safari browser. It isn't even close.

I am on a Rev 2, 2Ghz MacBook Pro with 2 gigs of RAM on 100mb fiber. I am running the two browsers next to each other on a 30 inch display. Webkit feels like I am on a maxed out Mac Pro tower - it really does. Try it if you don't believe me.

If you do - you notice that the transition is a cake walk. All of your bookmarks, history, cookies, etc move across each browser - even when opened at the same time so it is very easy and low risk to test WebKit. It has also been remarkably stable in my testing. I am tempted to move Safari off of my dock.

During random browsing, I notice that Safari is loading pages about half as fast on average as WebKit. Heavy pages the load times are definitely discernible. Light pages are harder to tell the difference. But how to quantify? Webkit.org has some Javascript test pages.

Sunspider is about a three minute test that focuses on JavaScript benchmarking. My confidence was so high in WebKit that I started off Safari on the test before I opened Webkit. About 20 seconds after I started Safari, I started Webkit. Webkit was way faster across all of the tests. I also opened my CPU monitor and noticed that Webkit was using a percentage point or two more CPU than Safari - but nothing drastic. Webkit was done about a minute before Safari was complete.

The results in completing the test:

Safari: 11932.0ms +/- 0.9%

Webkit: 4484.0ms +/- 1.8%

The newest Webkit is 2.5 times faster.

Another test called Slickspeed, tests other aspects of the browser's rendering engine. Again, WebKit simply blows Safari out of the water in almost every test.

What's so interesting about this is that Safari is already a fast browser. The fastest if you believe Steve Jobs 2007 WWDC Keynote. WebKit's amazing, unoptimized speed means that Safari is going to get so much faster. To the point where it makes a significant difference in browser user experience. While Windows products are getting slower and slower, Apple's products are getting faster and faster.

WebKit feeds into a lot of other technologies. It is also the basis of the Symbian phone browsers as well as the technology behind Adobe's AIR.

Safari is also the browser for the iPhone and iPod Touch and these WebKit improvements will likely hit these devices as well. Probably about the time a 3G iPhone is released.

Now that will be one slick little browser to have in your pocket!
 
new update 3.1 here. It improve much better. It make more incredible with WebKit
 
I have updated the Safari to 3.1. :)
 
My safari is upgraded its to 3.1, and we all are in same luxury swimming pool enjoying the fastest browser on Earth.
 
sequoias said:
Otherwise, not everyone uses Webkit as it's for developers. :-P
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yeah... WebKit has made 95% in ACID3 while Safari fare at 71%

I checked Firefox, which made terrible 41%. ouch. I have to check on Windows what's like.
 
Already upgraded to Safari 3.1, it's improved than previous version but Virtual Earth is still not work under WebKit based browser for both of Safari and Konqueror (this internet browser for Linux). I have still to use Firefox 3 for Virtual Earth and Firefox 2 for windows mail in non-classic mode.
 
okay, I test on windows xp with ACID3

IE6 - 14%
Firefox - 53%
Safari - 75%

impressive
 
Pacman said:
Already upgraded to Safari 3.1, it's improved than previous version but Virtual Earth is still not work under WebKit based browser for both of Safari and Konqueror (this internet browser for Linux). I have still to use Firefox 3 for Virtual Earth and Firefox 2 for windows mail in non-classic mode.
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Virtual Earth? What's wrong with Earth Google? It's free and it's great.
 
PowerON said:
Virtual Earth? What's wrong with Earth Google? It's free and it's great.
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Google Earth don't have bird's eye feature, also I have little lag issue on Google Earth for iMac but run so fine on MacBook Pro.
 
Pacman said:
Google Earth don't have bird's eye feature, also I have little lag issue on Google Earth for iMac but run so fine on MacBook Pro.
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ah, got it. I hardly use it. I only need road to find. That's it. :P
 
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