Apple recently announced the release of Safari 4 Beta. Like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and even Google Chrome, Safari has made large advances in its JavaScript engine, heavily competing as the fastest mainstream browser.
After IE and Firefox, Safari ranks as the third largest browser, measured in marketshare, and are showing the growing importance of JavaScript, especially as they relate to the growing use of client-side mashups. Along with mainstream support for cross-domain XHR, these advances should help bolster the browser's prominence in the client-side application market.
Erhan J. Kartaltepe,
erhan.kartaltepe-at-utsa.edu
