According to tweets from all three firms, Apple, Google, and Mozilla, the developers of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, are working together to develop Speedometer 3 browser, a benchmark for the next generation of browsers.
As a result, the key companies in the market for web browsers and rendering engines will have a role in a benchmark designed to evaluate how well their products work with any newest technology that websites might be utilizing.
Mozilla claims on Twitter that a benchmark created by a number of online companies will assist to create a “shared understanding of what matters.”
The corporation claims that coordination between web developers, standards bodies, organizations that create engines that understand code based on those standards, and businesses that create browsers based on those engines is crucial.
“Working together will help us further improve the benchmark and improve browser performance for our users,” according to Apple’s WebKit Twitter account.
Unlike some past benchmarks, Speedometer 3 is being started as a cross-industry collaborative effort.
Building this will be hard work, and working together gives us a chance to build the best version to help make the Web faster for years to come. https://t.co/lZyegpIAeW— Mozilla Developer 👩🏾💻 (@mozhacks) December 15, 2022
This benchmark will unavoidably be used to compare the WebKit of Safari to the Blink of Chrome or the V8 engine of Google to the SpiderMonkey of Mozilla, which may or may not be uncomfortable for the companies, depending on the findings.
However, the businesses have established guidelines that should help prevent any of them from attempting to sway the outcomes in their favor, as Google notes in its Twitter thread.
According to the governance policy, large changes need agreement from all parties involved, nontrivial modifications need approval from “at least two of the participating browser projects,” and cannot be implemented if there are strong objections from others.
Speedometer 3 is still in its very early stages; according to its GitHub page, it is in “active development and is unstable,” and it is advised that users stick with Speedometer 2.1. (That version was mainly made by Apple’s WebKit team.)
The next version will be “updated to include representative modern workloads, like JavaScript frameworks,” according to Google, and additional details on what precisely that entails will be available in the coming months.
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