Saturday, February 9, 2008

I am running Webkit r30090 and its wicked fast. Many sites are loading and rendering nearly instantly for me. This is going to save a boatload of time throughout a day. When OS X is updated, I imagine that Webkit will be updated for Safari and all will get the speed benefits... even on older hardware. A site that has always rendered a little slowly for me in Firefox and Safari has been ESPN's home page. With Webkit, it renders in under 1 second, everything, including the separate bits of Flash interactivity.

After having used Webkit for a while, I can't go back to my stock Safari... and while I love how Firefox extensions work, etc. I prefer the rendering Safari offers. Now with Webkit speed, its going to be hard to go back to Firefox unless there is a serious reason.

I'm not even using a very current version of Webkit here either. If Safari is going to be fast, then Adobe's AIR is going to rock even harder too.

Update:

Well, GMail loads completely under 1 second, and blogger loads and publishes in under 1 second as well. A HUGE increase in speed.

Update 2:
Well, RSS renders much better in my opinion in the new Webkit builds. I wish that RSS items rendered in a menu like in Firefox instead of blindly hitting an aggregate chunk of RSS and then see whats in it, but I generally think things are moving in a good direction.

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