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Browser Performance/Capability Benchmark Testing

In the past few years the browser wars have heated up again. Performance and capabilities of some browsers varies greatly. There are several standard tests that are publicly available to benchmark your systems. WebKit (Safari, Chrome & Chromium) and Mozilla (Firefox) based browsers, as well as Opera perform pretty well, MSIE is currently trailing in most cases.

Here are a few common ones…

Browser capabilities comparison testing

Browsers tend to evolve quickly, but they often do not offer the same capabilities cross-platform. As a result of this, there are many standard tests available to the developers of browser software to test for compliance with modern web standards.

Before making use of a specific capability in your web application, it’s often best to determine which browsers can support it.