Sorry to say that but it is not the JavaScript execution and parsing that makes an ordinary website slow (slow? in what way?). Badly written scripts and advertising hell do that. Of course its nice to see that browsers evolve relatively rapidly but stop here for a moment.
Most of the websites contain JavaScript but these are not rich internet applications, they just adding some functional enhancements, niceties for the user experience. There is only a small amount of sites that utilize heavyweight JS toolset. I don't know anything about percentages but I do think that the web will not change for a long term into a RIA monster network. Don't take it as a rant, I really like the RIA world, but saying X browser is the fastest in Y field is nothing more than marketing bullcrap.
Faster JS? Cool. Faster Rendering? Awesome. But these won't substitute stability, security, usability and delightful experience.
When you take a "developers" bullet point into your marketing brochure, excite them with great API as well.
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While I'm now pretty skpetical about the whole fat client RIA approach, you're quite right with this speed race we got - even though I feel a warm and fuzzy feeling seeing how our site works on FF3 and Chrome (it's a charm), I just get frustrated when I see the 250k+ javascript of the core product we have and can hardly stop thinking whether such behemots will be saved by faster parser engines alone.
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