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iOS 5 Features: Nitro Javascript engine comes to UIWebView, WebClips

By , Friday, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:21 pm
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Update: Sadly, while Web.app got Nitro so Home screen web apps enjoy the faster JavaScript rendering, UIWebView did not. That means web pages contained in apps are still using the

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Why Safari got Nitro and Web Clips and UIWebView didn't

By , Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:08 pm
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iOS 4.3 bugs: Web Clips, WebViews not benefitting from new Nitro JavaScript engine, asynchronous mode, HTML5 caching

By , Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:37 am
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While iOS 4.3's Safari is roughly twice as fast as previous versions thanks to the newly ported Nitro JavaScript engine, asynchronous mode, and HTML 5 application cache, it looks like

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iPad 2 JavaScript speed test

By , Monday, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:12 am
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CNET UK was able to take the iPad 2 running iOS 4.3 out for a test drive and the results are hypercar impressive -- 2097ms. iOS 4.3 and its new

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iOS 4 vs. Android 2.2 - Browser battle battle!

By , Wednesday, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:05 pm
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Which has the fastest browser, Apple's iOS 4 or Google's Android 2.2? We're used to browser battles here on TiPb, but how about a browser battle battle? See, both

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Apple Updates Mac/Windows Safari to 4.0.4 -- Raises Stakes in JavaScript Wars

By , Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:17 pm
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Apple has just released desktop Safari for Mac and Windows to 4.0.4, which improves full history search performance, has the mandatory stability improvements, and security fixes, but the big

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iPhone OS 3.0: Ars Benchmarks Mobile Safari -- 3x - 16x Faster than 2.2

By , Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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We mentioned yesterday that iPhone OS 3.0's Mobile Safari Browser was being reported as faster than the current iPhone OS 2.2.1 version. Now Ars Technica has run the numbers

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iPhone 3.0: Mobile Safari Using Nitro Engine for Ultra-Fast Web Browsing?

By , Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:05 pm
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We so fondly remember Palm's Roger McNamee stating the Pre would be a million times faster on the web than the iPhone (now retracted), and even our sister-site PreCentral.net

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