Safari, the default browser on every new Mac, was once the fastest browser available, arguably on any platform, at least out of beta. Now, however, it has some competition.
With Chrome using the WebKit rendering engine, as well as a new java engine, Safari has lost its speed advantage. Firefox has caught up to Safari on certain benchmarks, and Opera has always been faster on certain pages. Safari has to win on features, or else it needs to speed up. Unfortunately, Apple focused on form over function. Safari offers nothing over other browsers, there are no features not available elsewhere. Apple needs to do better with the next version to make it a competitor against Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and the Chrome derivative browsers(Iron and Chromium).
No comments:
Post a Comment