--Antoine Quint wrote:-- "There may of course be features which Opera is worse than ASV in terms of performance, but I generally find Opera equally as fast or faster than ASV and since it has SVG features implemented natively, I consider it to be a superior implementation to ASV."
In general, I would agree. The contexts in which Opera is slower than IE generally, if not always from my experience, seem to involve SVG animation. But, when it comes to raw under-the-hood programming in the browsers, take a peek at http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/javascript/stringtimer.html. IE shows quadratic increases of time allocation for concatenating strings in JavaScript as a function of string length -- in plain old HTML. (One may work around it by pushing and popping from arrays). Opera and FF both give the impression that the underlying code was properly implemented, in a sort of programming 102, sense. Opera is lightning-fast. Generally IE/ASV is a bit more tolerant in following bad code (that some of us might write from time to time) than Opera, though I've encountered a number of cases in which IE/ASV fails to follow the specs when Opera does. Opera is considerably more tolerant than FF. In http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/newstuff/wiggleline.svg for example, ASV fails to implement the SMIL animation of the attributeName="stroke-dasharray" . These sort of examples are likely to be encountered as one probes the edges of the 1.1 recommendation. And of course, being a living piece of code, Opera is way ahead in terms of beginning to implement things from SVG 1.2. The fact that it understands XML and XPATH and allows multiple namespaces to coexist (without ugly workarounds) etc. etc. If IE's market share were 10% instead of whatever it actually is, I suspect developers would choose to ignore it altogether, since it does require one to write a lot of workarounds. David ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/kOt0.A/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
