I was very surprised and interested to see this video of mobile browser performance. iOS’s Safari on the iPhone is considered a very quick browser but it’s left for dead by Android and Windows Phone 7 IE9. This has to be taken with a pinch of salt though as not many websites just display graphics like the Speed Reading test. However it does highlight the growing importance of the complete platform the browser is built on. Fast JavaScript alone isn’t going to be enough with more and more graphically rich websites, that being said iOS Safari will probably obliterate IE9′s CSS3 support. It’s a shame to see Safari is so slow as it’ll really hope back the adoption of mobile web apps built upon HTML5 as opposed to native apps.

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