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		jevinskie on March 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn’t Available to... Then why not allow at the home screen web apps to use Nitro? The entire app is within the UIWebView and controls nothing outside of it. I fail to see how a home screen web app is any different than one within MobileSafari.

msbarnett on March 17, 2011 [–]

That's a reasonable question, and for all we know, the failure of Nitro in that use case may well be a bug.

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