iOS 7 UIWebView, still not great

If you are a mobile developer who would like to use web technologies wherever possible, you probably want to find out whether UIWebView in iOS7 finally supports WebGL and includes WebKit Nitro JavaScript engine. I tested exactly that today. The short answer is a disappointing no to both questions.

My iPad 2 Sunspider 1.0.1 test results:

1) http://www.macworld.com/article/2010286/lab-tests-ios-6-and-ios-5-performance-differences.html

2) http://stackoverflow.com/a/18788195

UIWebView test app is a trivial iOS app I wrote. It instantiates one full-screen UIWebView object which loads the Sunspider test page.

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