iOS 7 UIWebView, still not great
September 21st 2013If 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:
iOS 7 | iOS 6 | |
Mobile Safari | 1268.5ms | 1440.0ms (1) |
UIWebView test app | 6129.0ms | 5496.8ms (2) |
Google Chrome for iOS | 6174.1ms | - |
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.