Thursday, March 27th, 2008 – 2:40:28 pm
In all of the previous Browser Warz competitions, there were only 4 competitors. Now, there are 26. Now, I hope you’re thinking “26 browsers on one computer? This guy must be crazy!”, because I am.
However, unlike the other Browser Warz competitions, the browsers in this competition will be facing other versions of their own kind before going on to face the winners of each individual competition.
There are 4 things that the browsers will be scored on in this leg of the competition:
- CSS errors (Is the purple header there? Does the body of the page match up with the header? Is the footer matching? Are the horizontal rules hidden?)
- JavaScript errors (Are there any? How bad are they?)
- Speed of the 3 tests (How fast were each of the three tests? How long did it take 5 repeats of each test to occur?)
- Total time taken on the tests (How many seconds did it take?)
The 26 browsers are split up into 5 categories:
Internet Explorer (7 browsers, page 2)
Firefox (4 browsers, page 3)
Opera (6 browsers, page 4)
Netscape (7 browsers, page 5)
Other (2 browsers, page 6)
This competition, because it is so long, is divided into pages to reduce loading time.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 – 9:17:56 am
The test:
To pass test 2, the browser has to:
- Correctly render the page from last time, except not gzipped.
- Read base64 encoded data and parse it as JavaScript.
- Do 10 million empty loops, 5 million Math.random() calls, and 500 thousand empty eval() calls as soon as the page loads.
- Respond to a double click event.
- Ask for permission to do memory-intensive scripts.
- Do 250 million empty loops, 125 million Math.random() calls, and 12.5 million empty eval() calls in under 10 minutes.
- Not crash during the time that it does step 3, although not responding for up to 5 minutes at a time is ok.
The results:
Safari went the fastest: 256.564 seconds (4.276 minutes)
Next in speed was Opera, with a time of 275.92 seconds (4.599
Thursday, September 6th, 2007 – 2:50:50 pm
Okay, so today, as I was walking into my school, “R” tells me that he was told that we could only use one film canister for our rocket. Later in the day, after all of our one-canister tests failed, we decided that we should forfeit. You simply cannot change rules in the middle of a contest, why should this be any different?
On a completely separate subject, today I said the following to “R”:
“There is one thing and only one thing you need to sustain human life: FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-Duh”
“R” replied with “Agreed”
