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by ttrashh 4818 days ago
Chrome for iOS is just a wrapper around Safari.
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marcins 4818 days ago
Chrome for iOS uses a UIWebView for rendering (effectively Safari), but uses the Chromium networking layer, UI (omnibox), etc. Arguably though rendering/JS is a big part of what makes the browser the browser, but it isn't everything.
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igrigorik 4818 days ago
Not at all. iOS version uses UIWebView, but all the rest is Chrome code.
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SunboX 4818 days ago
UIWebView means DOM, CSS and JavaScript is brought by mobile safari? All the stuff to show and run a web page?
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jonknee 4818 days ago
Yes. Apple doesn't let you do the parts that make a browser tick.
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