Tag Archive | "webkit"

Ever notice how gifs take forever to load on Safari?

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Once a staple of the web, animated gifs have for the most part been rendered obsolete by a number of other technologies used to relay video content. But they do still exist, and every once in a while you run into an animated gif that you just gotta see. And if you happen to be […]

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Apple’s growing role in WebKit development and what it means for Flash

Friday, August 28, 2009

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The WebKit engine has become the de-facto standard for mobile browsers, something which takes on broader implications in light of Apple’s unparalleled involvement and contribution to the WebKit open-source project. In addition to Apple, a number of other companies such as Nokia and Google are heavily involved with WebKit development, but with approximately 30 webkit […]

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iPhone 3GS smokes the Pre and G1 in Javascript benchmarks

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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Medialets recently put the new iPhone 3GS to the test and measured its JavaScript execution in Webkit against the Palm Pre and the T-Mobile G1.  After running the WebKit based JavaScript test known as SunSpider, Medialets found that the new iPhone 3GS was about 3x as fast as the Palm Pre and over 5x as […]

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Friday Morning Link Round Up

Friday, February 6, 2009

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Apple’s iPhone TV Ads Boost Individual App Sales – MacRumors Design of Apple Store in DC hits yet another wall – Washington Post The Kindle is not the next coming of the iPod – Roughly Drafted Sims 3 coming to the Mac and iPhone in Summer ’09 – TUAW Exploring Windows 7 on the Mac: […]

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