SVG performance (speed) in Safari 3.0 beta rocks!

[sky]

I've got a rather large SVG file, animated via JavaScript.
I've tried it in FireFox & Safari on a MacBook Pro (Intel dual core), FireFox on an older Windows XP box (under 2GHz), and IE with the Adobe SVG plugin on the same XP Box.

FireFox with native SVG support on Windows and Mac, along with IE with the Adobe plugin all perform about the same (slowly) rotating the complex image, and they're slow to load the image, but Safari just loads it immediately and starts cranking 15-30x faster. Wow!

I hope the other browsers figure out what Safari is doing right!

 

[Daniel]

I hope the other browsers figure out what Safari is doing right!

And I hope Safari learns what the other browsers are doing right. :p

 

[JFS]

And I hope Safari learns what the other browsers are doing right. :p

you got that right lol

 

[sky]

And I hope Safari learns what the other browsers are doing right. :p

I couldn't agree more. Safari needs to get on the same page with the DOM 'standards' but unless Safari's claim to speed is a lite feature-reduced SVG, the other SVG browser implementations should be similarly optimized.

In defense of FireFox, which is my browser of choice (comparitively slow as it is), it runs cross platform... but performance takes a hit for all the platform independent abstraction. Safari is much faster at everything, presumably because it is highly optimized for the native platform.

It's just a shame that all these vendors have to add their stupid idiosyncracies and ruin the experience. What don't they get about the browser being a commodity that's just supposed to work well for the maximum number of websites, anyway?

But as anyone in this forum knows, they *all* have some idiosyncracies.