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Re:The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising by snuxoll on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @12:23PM (#9886080)
> Chrome iOS browser was only 25% the frame rate of Chrome on a 4-year-old laptop.

That would be because Chrome on iOS is not Chrome, it's a wrapper around a UIWebView with all the performance pitfalls that entails. Go try it in Safari on iOS or Chrome on Android if you want a proper performance comparison.

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Re:The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising by hellofunk on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @05:56PM (#9888343)
What you say is true, however, the performance on iOS Safari was only marginally better than Chrome. My 60 fps on Chrome Desktop gets about 18 fps on Safari iOS and 15 fps on Chrome iOS.
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Re:The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising by eric_h on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @01:58PM (#9886797)
I was under the impression that UIWebView performance was on par with native Safari as of ~iOS 8.
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Re:The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising by snuxoll on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @02:33PM (#9887058)
WKWebView was released in iOS 8 that does bring the performance on par, it is still missing features that UIWebView provides and as such Chrome for iOS is still utilizing UIWebView instead of WKWebView.
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