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by buymorechuck 5473 days ago
Just a note about onswipe's Safari crashes: Excessive use of hardware accelerated CSS transformed elements (translate3d(0,0,0)) can use a lot of memory on iOS devices with a few known memory leaks in iOS WebKit (fixed in [REDACTED]). For production use of CSS transforms, developers have to carefully manage what is rendered with HW acceleration and balance that with UI glitches that can result.

I'm guessing that this is what's happening with OnSwipe browser crashes: reducing hardware accelerated elements would improve memory usage and reduce power consumption.

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> fixed in [REDACTED]

Is that a joke? Or did you actually have to redact it?

Probably iOS5 NDA implied.