Apple’s newly launched iPhone Dev Center (concerning the development of Web apps — currently there’s no information about native applications) for ADC members includes a section detailing changes in ...

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 fact ...

Flash has come to the iPhone–or rather, the iPhone has come to Flash–thanks to a clever addition to the Javascript Runtime Environment called Gordon and created by Tobias Schneider. While the addition ...

I got a little concerned earlier when David Pogue posted in The Ultimate iPhone FAQ that the Safari Web browser for iPhone would not support Java or Flash. This got my heart racing, and not in a good ...

The announcement that third-party iPhone development wouldn't have a "native" SDK was met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but developers have adapted to developing Web 2.0 applications quite ...

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 take ...

Even if Apple never lets a Flash plugin within 50 yards of an iPhone, you may yet be able to enjoy the richness of those blinking banner ads. Gordon (Get it? Like Flash Gordon?) is an open source ...

Now that the App Store is so popular, it's hard to recall the early days of the iPhone when native applications were few and far between. At that time, web applications (and jailbreak apps) were king, ...

AnandTech publishes the first SunSpider Javascript benchmarks for the iPhone 5. SunSpider measures Javascript performance which runs in web browsers. Smaller numbers are better, so the final score of ...

Now that you’re finally getting used to iOS 12’s new Shortcuts app, here comes Scriptable, a new automation app that runs JavaScript. It can make powerful and deep connections with your iPhone or iPad ...

Medialets today released the results of JavaScript benchmark tests performed using the SunSpider test suite on the iPhone 3G and 3GS, the T-Mobile G1 running Android, and the Palm Pre running webOS.