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Gregor
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23 Jun, 2008 4:56 am Safari 4 Developer Preview [sdp=92273]  
The compliance with Web standards is "at the top" with the upcoming Safari4.
The Developer Preview scores all points as seen here:

With the latest WebKit it is also a little bit faster.
With multiple tabs opened it is crashing from time to time and enabling Flash to work was also an effort / I had to delete the complete profile at the end.
So far satisfied with the excellent progress.

Does any of you using it (having a little bit of problems with Bonjour Service in XP)?

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Antony
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23 Jun, 2008 5:44 pm [sdp=92288]  
Thanks Gregor,

Are there any major differences between Safari 3 and Safari 4? I haven't tired Safari 4 myself.

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Gregor
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24 Jun, 2008 5:59 am [sdp=92297]  
I add the latest nightly Webkit this morning. The "thing" runs even faster now, especially on pages which containing JavaScript elements. I wanted to know how / why and I run into some interesting explanation:
Quote:
The SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter in Safari 4 is a bytecode engine which eliminates almost all of the overhead of a tree-walking JavaScript interpreter. According to the WebKit project, the SquirrelFish engine is 1.6 times faster than the engine in Safari 3.1. SquirrelFish does its magic by turning JavaScript script into so-called bytecodes, an optimized code much more suitable for run-time execution than natural language-based commands, which are longer and more complicated to interpret – and therefore are slower. It also leaves room to experiment with things like constant folding, type inference, specialization based on expression context, peephole optimization, and escape analysis.

This is very interesting. Will follow the progress...

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Gregor
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24 Jun, 2008 6:23 am [sdp=92298]  
Two things I like :

Web Inspector much more elegant and understandable:



This Feature is also very interesting:



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Arley
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28 Jun, 2008 7:02 pm Help WebKit? [sdp=92435]  
Hi Gregor I really need your help fast well I'm using Windows XP but when I download the latest webkit and when i click run webkit it launches the command prompt but it opens a window of Safari 4 and then automatically closes webkit for me hasn't worked for me since June 09 plzz help me out I will really appreciate it?

Thanks

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Gregor
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30 Jun, 2008 12:20 am [sdp=92454]  
If you unpack the latest nightly version WebKit-r34752 and execute the file Run-Nightly-Webkit.cmd script file than the following will happen:
- The Command Prompt Window will open in which you can observe the progress of ongoing installation
- When the installation is finished, than FindSafari.exe is called which brings up the Safari window.

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