The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed." • Hacker News Board

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by DaniFong » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 9:52 AM UTC

Opera has been far faster than Firefox (I believe) since inception. It remained my browser of choice until Firebug tipped me over: I gained much from being able to run hundreds of tabs simultaneously. I'm thrilled with the news.

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by rms » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 11:12 AM UTC

kinkydarkbird wrote: post #8

Safari is not the only browser to use webkit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#KHTML_and_...

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by pius » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 1:58 PM UTC

rms wrote: post #12

kinkydarkbird wrote: post #8

Safari is not the only browser to use webkit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#KHTML_and_...

That article lists Flock as being Webkit-based, but it actually uses Gecko.

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by Tichy » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 3:13 PM UTC

I can't believe that rendering speed is an issue with modern CPUs.

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by fdb » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 3:21 PM UTC

A warning before switching to the latest nightlies (http://nightly.webkit.org/): Gmail doesn't seem to be supported. Spoofing the user agent to pretend to be Safari 2.0.4 does load the page, but none of the links work.

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by pius » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 4:35 PM UTC

fdb wrote: post #15

A warning before switching to the latest nightlies ( http://nightly.webkit.org/ ): Gmail doesn't seem to be supported. Spoofing the user agent to pretend to be Safari 2.0.4 does load the page, but none of the links work.

Interesting, I'm not running into that problem.

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by Tuna-Fish » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 5:07 PM UTC

pius wrote: post #13

rms wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#KHTML_and_...

That article lists Flock as being Webkit-based, but it actually uses Gecko.

Ummm... no it doesn't. Read it again. It lists all browsers, grouped by implementation.

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by newton_dave » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 5:11 PM UTC

Tichy wrote: post #14

I can't believe that rendering speed is an issue with modern CPUs.

I can't believe any of my software is slow with modern CPUs.

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by Nicolay77 » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 5:17 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #3

boucher wrote: post #2

This is definitely true, the nightly builds of WebKit right now are incredibly fast. But, the shipping version of Safari is also much much faster than Firefox 2, and is still faster than Firefox 3 Beta. Safari has come a long way in a short time, it's an incredible browser.

It's pretty impressive that Apple can compete with open source. I forgot that was possible.

Opera has been doing that for ages.

AFAIK Opera 9.5 Beta is still faster than these two browsers.

Re: The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Post by mooneater » Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 5:47 PM UTC

Rendering of http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/10/utest-now-open-for-busi... seems broken on the yesterday's build.