differences between uiwebview and mobile safari

iphone mobile safari uiwebview
How2iphone picture How2iphone · Aug 16, 2010 · Viewed 18.7k times · Source

Have looked far and wide for info and have found no definitive list. Please add your observations. I'm sure it will come in handy to all.

Answer

kioopi picture kioopi · Sep 21, 2011

It doesn't have the Nitro Javascript engine. This makes executing Javascript much slower in UIWebView compared to Safari.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/18/apple-confirms-some-webkit-optimizations-unavailable-to-ios-apps/

http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2012/06/nitro-javascriptcore-and-jit.html

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