We previously reported on a method for storing an entire set of HTML in a bookmark on the iPhone (in effect allowing "Web apps" to live locally on the device) by utilizing the data: URL. All page ...

It's important to check that JavaScript is enabled on your iPhone so that websites work properly in Safari. Mikael Vaisanen/Getty Images You can enable JavaScript on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early JavaScript benchmarks from iPhones running a beta of iPhone OS 3.0 suggest the new version will bring big speed gains to web apps running in Mobile Safari, even on existing iPhone hardware. With ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Stacks of unmarked boxes are appearing at a Quanta distribution center just days before WWDC. Meanwhile, the WebKit team plans a major performance boost to JavaScript in Safari; the company has ...

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 ...

A rather clever programmer has managed to get the iPhone to run interactive apps created using Adobe's Flash platform. And because it works inside the Safari browser, it isn't subject to the ...