Free-iOS 8 Safari scores 440 points on the HTML5 test, still lags behind Chrome

Apple didn’t pay a lot of time particularisation the new hunting expedition version that comes as a section of the iOS eight update, solely mentioning its slightly altered UI and improved search box. Today, however, we have a tendency to learn that it'll conjointly bring improved HTML5 support.

Benchmarks of the new mobile hunting expedition appeared within the HTML5test.com info,

showing that the browser scores 440 points (out of 550). That’s notably higher than the four12 score of its forerunner and even beats the humanoid 4.4 KitKat stock browser, that achieves 428 points.

However, the opposite mobile browsers area unit how ahead – the most recent mobile Chrome gets 488, Firefox 464, whereas Opera manages 471. None of those will match the BlackBerry ten.2 stock browser and its 491 points, though.

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    BlackBerry ten.2 stock browser 491
    Chrome thirty three 488
    Opera 471
    Firefox 464
 hunting expedition (iOS 8) 440
 humanoid KitKat stock browser 428
 hunting expedition (iOS 7) 412
    WP 8.1 stock browser 372
    WP eight stock browser 332

Keep in mind that this can be a compatibility instead of a performance benchmark. thus a better score indicates that a browser supports the new HTML5 standards additional comprehensively, instead of being quicker with handling HTML5 content.