Windows Phone 7 Browser Comparison

Guys at PocketNow.com compared Windows Phone 7, iPhone and Android browsing experience.

BlackBerry 6 Web Browser

In the official BlackBerry Blog, team has demonstrated some of the features that are coming to a WebKit powered, BlackBerry 6 web browser.

What’s new?
In order to access specific web sites faster, engineers have redesigned browser start page which now includes a single URL and search entry box. Therefore, as you enter address, it will also seek your history and bookmarks sections.
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BlackBerry Webkit Browser Hands-On

Guys at Driphter.com got their hands on the upcoming BlackBerry browser that utilizes Webkit rendering engine.

Although it’s still in early development stages, browser does look promising and we are looking forward to the final version capabilities.

Weekly Browsers Recap, April 19th

• IE9 Will Change the Web Forever
• IE8 has blocked over 560 million malware sites: how many were legit?
• Firefox.next Alpha 4 is both: performance and looks
• Multi-process Firefox Lorentz beta now available for download
• Mozilla Hackability: Firefox Nintendo Wiimote driver
• Destroy The Web (add-on)
• Optimized Firefox: Pale Moon
• Simplifying Web Browsing? Google Chrome Drops URL Prefix
• Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video
• Comodo Dragon: A Chromium Browser With Extra Armor‎
• Opera Mini 5 Settings
• How WebKit Loads a Web Page
• Adobe CEO: Flash coming to Android, WebOS and BlackBerry ’smartphones and tablets’ in 2H 2010
• Important Java plugin update now available
• Funny fact about browser randomization
• HTML5 audio visualizations
• More Web Inspector Updates

Thanks to Blake Sening, mabdul, Nox and Rohan Gharia for links.

WebKit2 is Coming, More Stable than Ever Before

Recently, one of the Apple employers has announced a new WebKit framework, that they call WebKit2.

One of the main framework goals is to utilize a split process model, so the web content would be placed into a separate process. As a result, bad plugin, tab etc. won’t crash the whole web browser.

This behavior is very similar to Chrome’s; however, as split process module is directly integrated into WebKit2 framework, other clients will be able to use it as well.

As for today, initial versions are available for Windows and Mac platforms.

Thanks to Blake for the news tip.

SunSpider 0.9.1 Released

Today WebKit team has released an updated version of world’s most popular JavaScript benchmark. The key point of this release is more accurate results, which is achieved through bug fixes and few improvements.

You can try SunSpider 0.9.1 in the following page and compare it to 0.9 results here.

Notice any difference?

Next Firefox JavaScript Engine to Use WebKit

According to hacks.mozilla.org, the upcoming Firefox JavaScript engine (codenamed JägerMonkey) will be using some of the WebKit code snippets to speed things up.

Although JägerMonkey is still in early stages, engine is already 18% faster than its predecessor (thanks to WebKit). Furthermore, ETA is not yet announced.

As for codename, Jäger is a German word that means “hunter”, go figure.

Thanks to mabdul and Nox for the news tip.

Steam Replaces Internet Explorer with WebKit

Steam, one of the most popular content delivery platforms is ditching Internet Explorer rendering engine in favor of Webkit.

“We swapped out the Internet Explorer rendering engine with WebKit, which gives us a bunch of size, stability and performance benefits,” John Cook, Director of Steam Development at Valve said.

Who’s next?

If you would like to try a new version of Steam (beta), please visit the following page.

RIM Introduces Webkit Browser

Last year, Research in Motion has acquired mobile web browser maker Torch Mobile, which used WebKit rendering engine for its product(s).

Following that acquisition, today RIM has demonstrated an early build of WebKit based browser for BlackBerry phones. Read more

Weekly Browsers Recap, November 23rd

• IE8 bug makes ’safe’ sites unsafe
• MS discovers flaw in Google plug-in for IE
• Microsoft Windows chief decries standards grandstanding
• Firefox 3.6 locks down component directory – Update
• Security vulnerabilities in add-ons imperil Firefox users
• Google set to promote Chrome extensions
• Opera widgets without Opera…
• WebKit nightlies support HTML5 noreferrer link relation
• Camino 2 adds tab overview, phishing and malware protection
• Update on Camino 2 crashes

Thanks to Nox and mabdul for links.

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