I have JavaScript turned off in Safari. Webpages take much, much less time loading now. I'm learning to live without it entirely.
This is not the best idea, although they really shouldn't some sites rely on them. If you are writing a .NET web application and use the built in components then javascript is hard to avoid.
Oh, how about Flash speed and stability first. That would be nice. The web seems to be seeing flash as the future, yet when my PowerBook visits a site with even a flash ad on it, I feel as if my machine is about to take off and leave my lap.
Apple is trying to eliminate proprietary standards from the web i.e. flash, silverlight which means the web stays open, interoperable and not controlled by any one vendor.
It's quite a noble effort and some of the stuff you can do with CSS in webkit (which will get rolled into standards) can rival some flash stuff (annimation, masks, vector graphics etc.). Apple's website is flash free, yet still has interactivity.
That said I doubt they appreciate the flash experience is bad on the Mac, but this as Arn correctly points out, this is Adobe's problem to solve and they probably won't get much help from Cupertino.
I did some speed tests using the latest webkit (whcih includes the new squirrelfish stuff) and a bunch of other browsers. I posted the results at my blog for anyone who is interested:
http://gthing.net/new-javascript-engine-in-webkit-nerd-stuff/
The bottom line is that it is almost twice as fast as Safari, and not even in the same ballpark as firefox 2, 3 beta, internet explorer, etc. This thing is smoking!
Smokin'. Thanks for the stats, that's pretty interesting. Bookmarked.