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Anyone interested in optimising their mobile web applications should watch Apple's Safari tracks from this year's WWDC.

They have plenty of informative advice on how to improve general performance and how to use tools WebKit provides to measure performance problems.

Some key take aways:

Avoid using libraries (like jQuery). It will reduce memory consumption significantly.

Be careful how often you're invalidating style info and forcing recomuptation

Avoid using scroll handlers to do layout (especially when you're likely to inadvertently invalidate styles at the same time)



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