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If you need functionality like you describe, ship a native application via an app store. It’s a much better experience than web development.
Agreed. However, it still has the best perceived performance. Just open a page with a heavy layout and scroll up and down, or type an address or search term in the location bar and "feel" how fast it loads. Apple really put some effort in making it "feel" extremely fast.
I agree except for the back button. I hate how swiping to go back takes you back to a screenshot temporarily while the page reloads. I attempt to scroll up and down and interact with the screenshot until suddenly the page isn't how I remember it due to the reload. It's such a terrible, terrible design and I check every new version in hopes that this would be addressed.
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You can of course install an alternative to desktop Safari, just not to Mobile Safari.
So I should delete my Google Chrome app then? Granted it doesn't take the default for things but I can still use it.
Apple, on the other hand, has no reason to want the web to flourish. They make money by selling hardware, and by managing a closed ecosystem of apps and services that revolve around said hardware. iAd focuses exclusively on apps, not webpages. Cross-platform web technologies that try to close the gap between web apps and native apps are a threat to Apple's bottom line. The more people abandon the web in favor of native apps, the more money Apple makes.
At least in the days of IE6, Microsoft didn't really care about the web. Apple nowadays, on the other hand, has every incentive to sabotage the web. I don't think it's just technological purism that makes them reluctant to allow alternate rendering engines to work on iOS. They need to ensure that apps are the only way for developers to bring advanced features to iOS users. Because they're not competing on the web like the others. They're competing against the web.
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You can of course install an alternative to desktop Safari, just not to Mobile Safari.
So I should delete my Google Chrome app then? Granted it doesn't take the default for things but I can still use it.
[0] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/28/chrome-ios (linked by the article btw)
Safari's release cycle, however, is stupid per se.
If web assembly is supposedly as fast as C, why can't we have web browsers with a smaller built-in feature set and implement new specifications as libraries?
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You can of course install an alternative to desktop Safari, just not to Mobile Safari.
So I should delete my Google Chrome app then? Granted it doesn't take the default for things but I can still use it.
If Safari became a little too good, people might stop buying or developing apps.