This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code.
Contrary to the data from StatCounter, linked in last week’s H5W, WebMonkey notes that IE is actually growing in popularity and explains where the discrepancy in the figures comes from.
The popular Toms Hardware site pits Chrome 16, Firefox 9, IE 9, Opera 11.60, and Safari 5.1 against each other in a performance shoot out on both OS X and Windows 7. Firefox took the crown on Windows and Safari on OS X.
