Quote: Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
Quote: Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
15Jun
What -webkit-gradient really does is construct an image bitmap, and to the rendering engine it’s exactly the same as if you would supply and externally loaded image (like a PNG file). Images on Mobile Safari are notoriously slow (hope this will improve in 4.0!), and there’s basically nothing you can do about this– except not using images and gradients.
— Thomas Fuchs in Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast