Tag Archives: mobile

Dojo Wins Mobile Slickspeed Shootout

Stefan K. has posted a fascinating run-down of mobile browser performance with regards to JavaScript toolkits. No big shock, but Dojo once again brings home the bacon. I’d love to see these tests re-run with TaskSpeed instead of SlickSpeed, but when you’re doing progressive enhancement it turns out that selector engine performance really matters. Dojo [...]

WebKit == Mobile

With the Pre/Mojo announcement, it’s becoming clear that WebKit has mobile all sewn up. It bears listing who’s betting on WebKit and where:

Apple
iPhone, Safari
Google
Android, Chrome
Nokia
Series 60 browser
Plam
WebOS
Adobe
AIR web runtime

From deep integration with the platform to being the platform, WebKit in various forms is how nearly every credible smartphone now “does” the web. The major outliers [...]

Whoa.

Via Dion, Palm’s new Mojo framework for the Pre is based on Dojo!
As far as I know, it was a total surprise to the Dojo community (myself included). I can’t wait to get started writing apps for this thing and see what device APIs Palm has surfaced.