Can anyone give me the differences between those versions?
What can I do in version 2 that I could not do in earlier versions?
I use PhantomJS to execute code generated by Selenium. Will be there performance improvements?
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The difference ? Something like 0.1 Phantom JS... That said, what you're asking is called [Release notes](http://phantomjs.org/release-2.0.html) – Laurent S. Feb 17 '15 at 08:28
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1@Bartdude Sadly, that page doesn't contain the useful stuff. – Artjom B. Feb 17 '15 at 08:37
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My Bad then... not using it I was supposing release notes were complete as the ones from jQuery can be for example. apparently not :-) – Laurent S. Feb 17 '15 at 13:12
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PhantomJS 2 has a "new" WebKit version underneath. So it changed from 534.34 in PhantomJS 1 to 538.1 in PhantomJS 2. The difference in numbers in this dimension is not big, but there is a more than two year difference between the release of the two WebKit versions. See also: Does PhantomJS use QtWebKit or Blink?
It's not that its performance is better, but rather that it supports more up-to-date web standards and APIs, and has less bugs.
Problems in the past:
element.click()was not available on all elements, but only on<input>and<button>elements. (Workaround)- PhantomJS has now
Function.prototype.bindwhich doesn't need a shim anymore. - PhantomJS <1.9.8 used SSLv3 by default which broke many scripts one day.
- PhantomJS 1 has a bug with
:nth-child()selectors.
