Yes. Oh yes, yes, yes. Mobile Safari in iOS5 will bring real tabbed browsing to the iPhone and iPad. I can’t express how much I hate that little tab thumbnail button, so this makes me happy as a clam. Check out the rest of iOS 5′s new features in our roundup.
If you find hyper-targeted web ads to be really, really creepy like I do, you’ll be happy to know that the OS X Lion version of Safari will follow the lead of Firefox by preventing online ad-networks from being able to track your browsing history. That means no more dating sites advertising your future soulmate who also loves Canon 5D firmware hacks. [WSJ via The Register]
The Register received word directly from Apple that web apps are in fact running slower on iOS 4.3 because they’re not optimised for the new Nitro JavaScript engine.
Apple devices running the latest iOS 4.3 update were supposed to run a significantly faster version of the Mobile Safari web browser, boasting a new JavaScript engine promising to double speeds.
Occipital, purveyor of fine iPhone wares such as Redlaser and ClearCam, recently released a new iPhone app 360 Panorama. And in the process, they discovered you can navigate pages in Mobile Safari using the iPhone 4′s gyroscope.
