It has been going on for a while now, but today I took my first spin with the new Swift that many people already have blogged about for a few weeks. It is still an early Alpha, but basic operability is already built into the browser.
Earlier you have seen a KHTML renderer in Konqueror on Linux and an other version of it called Safari for the Mac users out there. And now it is on it`s way to Windows. Way to go.
The first thing I noticed is the speed. It loads very fast, and the rendering is not too bad either. But all this as expected though. But then again, Firefox was really fast in the beginning when it was a beta too, but after thousands of extra lines of code, it is natural that any application will slow down a bit. It will still be interesting to see where this browser will end up on the various speed tests out there though, when it is finished ported to Windows.
One thing I noticed very fast with the browser (all browser I have on my machine handles this differently though) is that if I scroll fast, it creates some leaping artifacts that I don`t really like too much. But then again. This is an alpha and it might be changed lots of times before we see the final result here. But all in all a thumb up for this very fine project.
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Published: 13.12.2006 by Comments 0
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