Safari 1.3 Seeded
With Safari 2.0 coming with Tiger in 2005, Apple is still working on improvements in the current version of Safari. Safari 1.3 (v146) was seeded to developers today and offers several under the hood improvments.
Reports indicate primarily that speed has improved noticeably, with several CSS rendering fixes. The most notable improvement appears to be in Safari's Javascript engine.
One users' BenchJS score went from 113 seconds to 16.29 seconds from Safari 1.2.2 to 1.3 (screenshot). Meanwhile Firefox .9 scored 49.0 seconds on the same test/hardware config (1GHz PowerBook).
Reports indicate primarily that speed has improved noticeably, with several CSS rendering fixes. The most notable improvement appears to be in Safari's Javascript engine.
One users' BenchJS score went from 113 seconds to 16.29 seconds from Safari 1.2.2 to 1.3 (screenshot). Meanwhile Firefox .9 scored 49.0 seconds on the same test/hardware config (1GHz PowerBook).
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100 months ago
awesome. now lets get it to work with my webbanking without doing any hacks and i'm golden!
100 months ago
With Safari 2.0 coming with Tiger in 2005, Apple is still working on improvements in the current version of Safari. Safari 1.3 (v146) was seeded to developers today and offers several under the hood improvments.
Reports indicate primarily that speed has improved noticeably, with several CSS rendering fixes. The most notable improvement appears to be in Safari's Javascript engine.
One users' BenchJS score went from 113 seconds to 16.29 seconds from Safari 1.2.2 to 1.3. Meanwhile Firebox .9 scored 49.0 seconds on the same test/hardware config (1GHz PowerBook).
Wicked! I'm already impressed with Safari at the current version. Just keeps getting better.
Just a note: Safari has worked great with my online banking since the beginning.
100 months ago
Are those clockspeeds real???
How could they increase the performance of a web browser that much?!
Anyone?
How could they increase the performance of a web browser that much?!
Anyone?
100 months ago
that is some CRAZY speed enhancements.....haha IE isnt updating til Longhorn. And they will regret it!
100 months ago
Sweet!
I hope they make Safari 2.0 on some level for Panther... meaning features like RSS can be left out but that it renders pages visually the same even if not as fast. Tying browsers to operating system versions is so Microsoftian and makes it a pain to test for when web developing. it's a pain to get Safari into our browser test cycle when you have to say things like "Well, they fixed that in Safari 1.2 but you need to have Panther for that, so we can't really count on people having the latest version." etc. etc.
I hope they make Safari 2.0 on some level for Panther... meaning features like RSS can be left out but that it renders pages visually the same even if not as fast. Tying browsers to operating system versions is so Microsoftian and makes it a pain to test for when web developing. it's a pain to get Safari into our browser test cycle when you have to say things like "Well, they fixed that in Safari 1.2 but you need to have Panther for that, so we can't really count on people having the latest version." etc. etc.
100 months ago
awesome. now lets get it to work with my webbanking without doing any hacks and i'm golden!
The current version of Safari works fine with my banking (Wells Fargo). It didn't right off the bat, but one of the builds in the 70's fixed that.
Looks like it's time to switch banks....;)
-- Ben
100 months ago
Wow, this amazing! I hope they improve JAVA also and make it work on every websites. Right now Safari doesn't work on some sites that I use. Besides, some sites that let you listen music online doesnot work on Safari or it could be on Mac. Apple needs to fix this problem, too.
100 months ago
The good: Apple is making great improvements in their already great web browser.
The bad: By this time next year, we will have 3 different incarnations of the same browser on the same platform (albeit different versions)
Safari 1.0 on Jaguar
Safari 1.3 on Panther
Safari RSS (2.0) on Tiger
A bit confusing. :confused:
The bad: By this time next year, we will have 3 different incarnations of the same browser on the same platform (albeit different versions)
Safari 1.0 on Jaguar
Safari 1.3 on Panther
Safari RSS (2.0) on Tiger
A bit confusing. :confused:
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