Here are the results of some tests on iOS8, hopefully they will be useful
to someone! :)
I need to do some more useful tests on DOM related stuff as it was
mentioned here already JS speed is not usually the bottleneck in Cordova
apps. Unless you're doing crazy crypto like some people :)
*@Shazron:* I am not seeing IndexedDB support in UIWebView but maybe I am
not enabling something I need to on the native side? For me HTML5 Test is
only showing IndexedDB for Safari and WKWebView. As you can see I am
getting a dramatic lower HTML5 Test score in UIWEbView vs WKWebView.
*Tests run on an iPod Touch 5th Generation running iOS8 GA*
iPod Touch iOS 8 *Safari*
UserAgent - Mozilla/5.0 (iPod touch; CPU iPhone OS 8_0 like Mac OS X)
AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12A365
Safari/600.1.4
Sunspider - 1825ms Overall
HMTL5 Test - 440/555
- Seamless iFrame - No
- 2D Graphics Path Support - Yes
- Web GL 3D Graphics - Yes
- IndexedDB - Yes
- Objectstore ArrayBuffer Support - Yes
iPod Touch iOS 8 *HomeScreen*
UserAgent - Mozilla/5.0 (iPod touch; CPU iPhone OS 8_0 like Mac OS X)
AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12A365
SunSpider - 1801.0ms Overall
HTML5 Test - 427/555
- Seamless iFrame - No
- 2D Graphics Path Support - Yes
- Web GL 3D Graphics - Yes
- IndexedDB - No
- Objectstore ArrayBuffer Support - No
iPod Touch iOS 8 *WKWebView*
UserAgent - Mozilla/5.0 (iPod touch; CPU iPhone OS 8_0 like Mac OS X)
AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12A365
SunSpider - 1822.8ms Overall
HTML5 Test - 438/555
- Seamless iFrame - No
- 2D Graphics Path Support - Yes
- Web GL 3D Graphics - Yes
- IndexedDB - Yes
- Objectstore ArrayBuffer Support - No
iPod Touch iOS 8 *UIWebView*
UserAgent - Mozilla/5.0 (iPod touch; CPU iPhone OS 8_0 like Mac OS X)
AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12A365
SunSpider - 7114.6ms Overall
HTML5 Test - 427/555
- Seamless iFrame - No
- 2D Graphics Path Support - Yes
- Web GL 3D Graphics - Yes
- IndexedDB - No
- Objectstore ArrayBuffer Support - No
*iOS 8 Notes*
- Seamless iFrame was removed compared to iOS 7.1.2
- IndexedDB is only supported in Safari & WKWebView App
- Objectstore ArrayBuffer is only supported in Safari & WKWebView App
- UIWebView is ~4x slower then WKWebView for JS (Sunspider results)
- WKWebView cannot load local files (issue for Cordova/Phonegap/Offline
Solutions)
- No UserAgent difference between UIWebView and WKWebView.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:41 PM, tommy-carlos williams <to...@devgeeks.org>
wrote:
> Generally speaking, JS performance is not a problem for most iOS Cordova
> apps. Certainly I never had a problem until recently.
>
> Sadly, I now work with a JS privacy (crypto) lib called Crypton[1] that
> works pretty damn good on Android, decently on BB10 and even pretty good on
> FxOS… but takes like 2 MINUTES just to log in on an iPhone 5 :(
>
> And that’s only using 1000 rounds of PBKDF2 for SRP authentication (less
> than we would like).
>
> Luckily, my use case is not the norm… but it does mean I am making apps
> that are unusable on iOS, which makes me sad.
>
> 1. https://crypton.io
>
> On 10 September 2014 at 10:20:21, Andrew Grieve (agri...@chromium.org)
> wrote:
>
> That's great news.
>
> JS execution speed honestly hasn't really been a problem for Cordova
> apps that I've heard of anyways.
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some interesting findings - iOS UIWebView and WKWebView have the same
> > user-agent value, and both score 440 on html5test.com.
> >
> > Which makes me think they use the same engine (renderer and js), but
> > UIWebView has nitro turned off. WKWebView seems to be about 4x faster on
> > the Sunspider benchmark.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> UIWebView iOS 8 scores 440/555 points on html5test.com, and yes it
> >> supports indexedDB
> >> Full results: http://html5te.st/f16d892273bbe5bd
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> :(
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully UIWebView will still get some updates though? E.g. IndexedDb?
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Tommy Williams <to...@devgeeks.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > That's pretty disappointing.
> >>> >
> >>> > Especially with not even a comment from apple.
> >>> > On 10 Sep 2014 05:50, "Shazron" <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> Well, bad news. I just installed the iOS 8 GM firmware on an iPhone
> 5
> >>> and
> >>> >> used Xcode 6 GM, and the file:// url "bug" (assuming it is a bug and
> >>> not by
> >>> >> design) is still there.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> http://www.openradar.me/radar?id=5839348817723392
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> > Clarification:
> >>> >> > When I said "The bridge works great, and plugins work great." this
> >>> was
> >>> >> > for loading a html page and plugins using the file:// protocol
> using
> >>> >> > WKWebView (as the title of the report implies). The bug I reported
> >>> was on
> >>> >> > Device (> iOS beta 4), on Simulator it is *fine* (this info was in
> >>> the
> >>> >> bug
> >>> >> > report as well).
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > *Nothing* has been done using the local web server and proxy (at
> >>> least
> >>> >> > nothing checked in). An implementation on how the proxy works can
> be
> >>> seen
> >>> >> > in the PhoneGap Developer App:
> >>> >> > https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-app-developer
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > See CB-7043 for progress on tasks regarding this.
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >> I figure I will write this all up before the official release of
> >>> iOS 8
> >>> >> >> next week (probability high) and everyone asking about support.
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> It has stalled because the WKWebView cannot load files using the
> >>> file://
> >>> >> >> protocol since iOS 8 beta 4.
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> This bug has been filed with Apple weeks ago:
> >>> >> >> http://www.openradar.me/radar?id=5839348817723392
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> I even checked WebKit check-ins if there was any progress, so
> far,
> >>> no:
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >>
> >>>
> http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/Cocoa?order=date&desc=1
> >>> >> >> (but it's entirely possible the loading code is in another part
> of
> >>> the
> >>> >> >> tree).
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> The alternative is to run a local web server, which works great.
> >>> >> However,
> >>> >> >> this will open up a can of worms possibly with Apple, I'm not
> sure.
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> The other interesting tidbit is, with WKWebView, for locally
> loaded
> >>> >> files
> >>> >> >> using the file:// protocol, cross-domain restrictions now apply,
> >>> unlike
> >>> >> >> UIWebView's behaviour. To have the same behaviour as UIWebView,
> we
> >>> would
> >>> >> >> need to proxy these requests (modify xhr.open to go to our proxy,
> >>> which
> >>> >> >> requires the local web server).
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> The bridge works great, and plugins work great.
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >
> >>> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>
>
