OSNews

Or antivirus vendors should reach a consensus to consider IE6 a security threat and ask the user if he prefers putting it on quarantine or removing it

The article summary should mention that Squirrelfish is the Webkit JS engine.

I expect web applications to be no slower than desktop applications. Digg.com is a great candidate to test a JS engine

That isn't a very reasonable expectation, it is only beta level browsers that are able to deliver both experience and speed comparable to desktop apps, and even these have only appeared quite recently.

Nahhh!!...That's not true

My point was that it's not properly quoted and referenced.

He's right. I couldn't tell it was from Webkit's team until looking up a little bit. Should be clearer.

2nd that. Except that I didn't bother to follow any of the links in the teaser, reading the comments told me all I needed to know.

The sad state of journalism

They should have spelled it X-Treme! Everyone knows something with a (uppercase) X in the name sells better.
http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Wormhole_X-Treme!_(episode)

--------------------- x
|......................|
|........wow........|
|......................|
----------------------

Edited 2008-09-19 18:19 UTC

document.write("Please no Javascript here");

var p = document.createElement("p");
p.appendChild(documnet.createTextNode("Do you feel better now?"));
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(p);

Edited 2008-09-19 22:27 UTC

$javascript = eregi_replace( "<javascript[^>]*>", "", $javascript );
echo $javascript;

Edited 2008-09-19 23:08 UTC

Damn, the comment system screwed those (copy-pasted) quote marks up good.

The funny thing is that somehow you managed to print a "euro" symbol in the mix, however if you try typing it the normal way, you get this crap instead: â¬



Edited 2008-09-19 19:32 UTC

The amount of regexp content on the benchmark has not changed. And when the test was first made, it did not particularly make WebKit look better. In fact, when the benchmark first came out, Safari lost pretty hard on the overall score.

Thanks for the update. I compiled up 64 bit Epiphany-Webkit trunk today and ran sunspider on it and regular Epiphany (Gecko 1.9 in Ubuntu Intrepid development version) and got:

Epiphany-webkit: 1495ms
Epiphany-gecko: 3214ms

I was wondering what Javascript engine was in it.

This was on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 running at 3.0 GHz.

Edited 2008-09-21 00:20 UTC