“Web development tools vendor Sencha examined Apple’s iPad 2 and Motorola’s Xoom running Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb, crediting Apple with ‘a top rate, no compromises HTML5 browser’ while calling Android “not ready for primetime, even for HTML4,'” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“Sencha notes that Apple’s iOS 4.3 just introduced a new implementation of Safari based upon WebKit version 533.17.9, which it says is ‘a very recent build’ and incorporates Apple’s Nitro JavaScript engine,” Dilger reports. “The latest Safari 5.0.4 update for Mac OS X uses WebKit version 533.20.27. Android 3.0 uses WebKit 534.13.”
Dilger reports, “In contrast, Sencha wrote, ‘our experience to date with Android has been lackluster, starting with the disappointing browser in the Galaxy Tab and the Xoom [running Android 3.0 Honeycomb].’ Note that various Android licensees rarely replace or enhance Google’s included web browser, so Sencha’s findings on the Motorola Xoom will also relate to the web performance of other Honeycomb tablets, including new models from Acer, Samsung, and Toshiba.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “D-Bog” for the heads up.]