Apple’s mobile Safari Web browser may not have always done well against the competition, but the addition of the Nitro JavaScript engine certainly helped speed things up. According to new tests, the version of mobile Safari that will come with Apple’s iOS 5 is even faster, outdoing Internet Explorer and Android browsers.
Winrumors ran (and we confirmed – below) that the iOS 5 Beta’s Safari actually blows by the experimental IE 9 in Mango and scores a 31.
iOS 5 will probably ship before Mango and it just beat it on Microsoft’s own unfair to begin with test.
iOS5 Mobile Safari smokes IE and Android browser, even on Microsoft’s tests | 9 to 5 Mac
Something I’ve never had answered to my satisfaction: are these Nitro enhancements going to trickle down to other WebKit browsers? I.e., basically every other mobile browser in existence?
Sweet sweet benchmark pwnage, right?
AFAIK the nitro engine isn’t something owned by Apple, so it’s possible.