I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next version of
Read more'transform' is a powerful CSS attribute and we're all told we should use it "for performance". But why? I'm going to find out.
Read moreThe bad news upfront: you can't do this in an app you're going to submit to the App Store because it involves using a private API. But I thought it was interesting nonetheless. In short: iOS's webview, WKWebView, allows you create a "custom
Read moreDid you know that iOS comes with a JavaScript engine bundled into the OS? JavaScriptCore (JSC) is the same engine used inside Safari, wrapped in a very interesting API that lets you mix JavaScript and native values together. Most importantly, when it was introduced in iOS 7 it was also
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