I offered Andrew Yee to bring
his great medical eponym database to the iPhone and therefore started working on an iPhone client. Due to the lack of an iPhone I am only testing this client on my MacBook Pro and Safari/iPhoney, but the iPhone is not as powerful as my laptop, surprise surprise.
So to be able to determine what the iPhone is capable of, I let the client spit out some debug information - and this gives a good opportunity to compare or even benchmark iPhones' Safari to Safari on other platforms (or even other browsers). Of course this is not really a benchmark, nevertheless it's interesting to see how iPhones' Safari performs on three tasks:
- generating ~1'600 JavaScript objects
- adding ~1600 links to a div (DOM)
- animating two div transitions
Rafael: Thank you very much, I was having a huge headache to solve the very same problem!