[webkit-dev] programmatic text selection

[Mike Emmel]

Finally found some benchmarks form what I can tell Firefox is
significantly faster on scripts
then Safari

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#testresults

It does look like the khtml engine itself is quite fast so the
combination of SpiderMonkey with
WebCore should make a very fast browser.

Again please prove that KJS is faster then SpiderMonkey everything I
finds shows not only is this not true but it is significantly slower.
I see no reason that the proposal to integrate SpiderMonkey slim it
down and do a little performance tunning is not valid and resonable
approach. I see no reason to start from scratch on a new interpeter.

Finally I think this benchmark should be run agianst webkit/IE/Firefox
and the results should be on the website it would be helpful. It took
me a while to find a page with a reasonable set of results.

Mike



On 5/26/06, Giacomo Luca Maioli <luca at tricheco.net> wrote:
> > On 5/26/06, Giacomo Luca Maioli <luca at tricheco.net> wrote:
> >>  >> But Safari throws an error while processing the last method (the
> >> one which actually highlight text), so you should try:
> >>
> >>  >> window.getSelection().setBaseAndExtent(selDiv, 0, selDiv, 1);
> >>
> >> So you'll only need to play around with this (strange and mostly
> >> unknown) method.
> >
> > I'm afraid Safari doesn't appear to support setBaseAndExtent() method
> > on a selection, either.
> >
>
> I just tested the code on both Firefox and Safari. You can find a
> working example here:
>
> http://www.tricheco.net/selection.html
>
> I'm using Safari Version 2.0.3 (417.9.3) and Firefox 1.5.0.3 on Mac
> and Windows.
>
>
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