improve iPhone Web App performance

[George Chen]

Coworker and friend of mine Wayne Pan just made a blog post about using base64 encoding to cut down the number of HTTP request on iPhone WebApps. It's a cool trick. Check it out:

http://waynepan.com/2008/08/26/iphone-web-app-performance-tip-use-inline-images/

 

[Jon Brisbin]

I've researched this, too. I haven't yet decided for myself whether I should go this route, given the cache limitations of the iPhone:

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/02/06/iphone-cacheability/

I'm considering trying this out on the desktop browser version of the pages (I use a special server-side function to include my external resources that uses far-future caching...I can modify the function to do inlining instead of copying the resource to a cache-friendly name). 

Another good resource on this is:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/inline-images/

Thanks!

Jon Brisibn

http://jbrisbin.com