Apple released the latest major version of its Web browser, Safari 5, earlier this week. Along with several new features—one of them somewhat controversial—the update was said to pack a number of ...

Apple have launched Safari 4, the latest version of their browser for OS X and Windows. Claimed to run JavaScript over four times faster than Safari 3 and thirty times faster than IE7, thanks to the ...

You may remember a couple months ago there was some contention whether Safari or Firefox had the fastest JavaScript performance. Apple had claimed Safari 3 was the ...

Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro. The new Nitro JavaScript engine ...

The Safari browser in Apple's iOS 6 platform has a potentially serious JavaScript bug that could have major security and privacy implications. The new "Smart App Banner" feature in iOS 6 is designed ...

Apple's annual developer conference won't kick off until June 9 but already there's some exciting news for Mac fans. The team behind Apple's Safari web browser have announced a new, and much faster, ...

Last night, Apple's WebKit group announced the new SquirrelFish Extreme, a major new retooling of the SquirrelFish JavaScript engine originally announced in June. The update comes before SquirrelFish ...

You can enable JavaScript on your iPhone in the Safari section of the Settings app. If JavaScript isn't turned on, many websites will appear broken in your Safari ...

There's a performance arms race going on among the various JavaScript engines in your favorite web browsers. The latest to leap ahead is SquirrelFish Extreme, a new version of the JavaScript rendering ...

Contrary to Apple’s claims, the newest version of Safari is not the world’s fastest browser, benchmark scores show. But it is dramatically faster than rivals being built by Mozilla and Microsoft.

In the current public beta of Safari (2-12-03) there is a JavaScript bug that causes the browser to ignore "close window" buttons, traditionally used on pop-up windows and some navigation schemes.

Outlined Monday on the CERT Web site, this problem happens because Safari fails to properly handle references to window objects in the HTML DOM, and allows DOM window references to exist even if the ...