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Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by bdash on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:18PM (#5217690)
I'm not sure what you mean by UIWebView being an "older implementation of webkit". UIWebView uses the same version of WebKit as Safari on iOS, which is essentially the same version of WebKit as is shipped with Safari on OS X.
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Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by lukeman on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:29PM (#5217736)
Right, the difference is Mobile Safari and home screen web apps use the Nitro engine while UIWebView still uses JavaScriptCore IIRC.
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Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by bdash on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:32PM (#5217745)
Nitro is Apple's marketing name for JavaScriptCore, so UIWebView and Safari both make use of Nitro. The difference you're thinking of is whether a JIT compiler is used. That difference has nothing to do with the age of the version of WebKit used in UIWebView vs Safari.
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