Apparently the new Google Chrome is fast…
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Mike Rogers is a Web Developer who is currently at University studying Web Technologies. He also is the founder of Full On Design. He has several years experience freelancing and you can follow him on Twitter (Rogem002).
Google Chrome is well known for being very fast at rendering web pages, but based on an update on the Google Student Blog it appears to be mind bogglingly snappy. To give you a sense of how snappy, take a look at this video comparing Chromes rendering to the speed to a potato.
Crazy Right? Well it’s all down to a new V8 JavaScript rendering engine, which boasts an improvement of 35%.
That’s great! What does it mean for Web Development?
Hopefully this new engine will inspire other browser programmers how to render JavaScript faster, which in 3-6 months should mean the average user experience (the 35% of users who upgrade their browser when updates are released) should be improved.
However, this does not mean we can use create complex JavaScript websites (Such as Facebook) render quickly, instead it means subtle usability improvements to a web page should be more effective.
Note: Is anyone interested in trying to recreate this but showing other browsers loading?
