Android 2.2 crushes iOS 4 in Javascript benchmarks

When Google introduced Android 2.2, the company announced that one of the biggest changes was a new Just In Time (JIT) compiler which dramatically sped up Javascript performance. That means that most third party apps run faster on Android 2.2 than Android 2.1, and many web sites with Javascript elements render more quickly. But how does Google’s latest mobile operating system stack up against Apple’s?… Read more »

Smokescreen converts Flash to JavaScript, works on iPhone

The Apple iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch may not support Adobe Flash. But that doesn’t mean you can’t access Flash content on those devices. A few weeks ago we looked at Cloud Browse, an app that basically lets you stream Flash (and other) content from a remote web browser to an iPhone. But web developer Chris Smoak has an even more interesting solution, which he… Read more »