Apple, Google, Mozilla, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox developers are teaming up to build the next-generation browser “Speedometer 3”.
The three players will get a vote in a benchmark. That will test how their apps function with the websites’ latest techs.
Mozilla tweeted that a benchmark created by several web companies will deliver a “shared understanding of what matters.”
This is critical in coordinating with web developers’ standards bodies. And the groups that create the engines interpreting code, and the businesses building browsers around the engines.
Apple’s WebKit Twitter account said, “performing together will enable us further enhance the benchmark and browser performance for our users.”
The benchmark will eventually compare Safari’s WebKit to Chrome’s Blink or Google’s V8 engine to Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey.
However, Google noted in a Twitter thread that the three parties have worked on ground rules that would stop them from tipping the results in their favor.
The governance policy drafts regulations and procedures to be followed, where nontrivial modifications require approval from other partners and can’t be executed if faced with strong objections.
The Speedometer 3 is “active development and is unstable” and suggests using Speedometer 2.1 instead of GitHub. And we expect the latest version to “have to include current representative workloads, like JavaScript frameworks.”
