Tag: webkit

07 Apr 2008

One Day, You Will See a Huge Firefox Rant, Until Then …

There has been an ongoing benchmark battle between Webkit/KHTML, Firefox, and Opera. The Firefox devs, after seeing their browser lose (anyone surprised by that?), suggest “turn off extensions.” Well, yes, that ends up improving performance. But the point is, they forked from and then shot in the back the Mozilla Suite/Seamonkey, which implemented tons of [...]

27 Mar 2008

Acid3/2 hype

People are getting all excited because Opera and Webkit are passing the Acid3 tests. This is similar to the hype for the past couple of years over Acid2. These tests largely get their backing due to the fact that the original Acid test was included as a reference test in the CSS1 specification. The same [...]

27 Feb 2008

Light Posting

Apologies for the lack of posting (for the 2.2 peole who care, and the 1 person who noticed). I woke up to my laptop’s hard drive going click-click. It is still ‘functional’ and I have all the important data off of it. However, after having used the same Debian install for almost 8 years, I [...]