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I got a little concerned earlier when David Pogue posted in his Ultimate iPhone FAQs List, Part 2 that the Safari Web browser for iPhone would not support Java or Flash.
On an iPhone, JavaScript should be turned on by default, but if it was disabled at some point, many websites will appear broken in the Safari browser. To enable JavaScript, go into the Settings app on ...
Since iPhone web applications use a lot of JavaScript, Hockenberry first benchmarked the JavaScript performance of the iPhone compared to the JavaScript performance on a 1.83 GHz iMac.
In early July, we noted that JavaScript performance on the iPhone is (was) downright sluggish in most respects. Celtic Kane online offers a Javascript benchmark that tests various Javascript.
A few speed tests done on the new iPhone 3GS pitting it both against the old iPhone as well as its main rivals. So far, these have either been eyeball tests or page rendering/boot time tests that ...
When it first arrived in iPhone apps, the simple “pull to refresh” action was instantly hailed as a genius bit of user interaction engineering. It’s an ultra-intuitive way of refreshing the ...
No one expected the iPhone to deliver desktop-class performance with regard to Web-based applications, but JavaScript speed on the iPhone is downright sluggish in most respects -- a frustrating ...
AnandTech publishes the first SunSpider Javascript benchmarks for the iPhone 5. SunSpider measures Javascript performance which runs in web ...
Flash support comes to the iPhone in the form of a JavaScript addition, no jailbreak required.
Early JavaScript benchmarks from iPhones running a beta of iPhone OS 3.0 suggest the new version will bring big speed gains to web apps running in Mobile Safari, even on existing iPhone hardware ...
JavaScript Hack Enables Flash on iPhone A rather clever programmer has managed to get the iPhone to run interactive apps created using Adobe’s Flash platform.