Does mobile safari use UIWebView class? - ios

I have error in a phonegap application and in my website when I open it in chrome browser in IOS. I suspect that it happens because of chrome and phonegap use UIWebView class. But there is no errors in mobile safari. So, I would like to know if safari use this class too.


No. Chrome does indeed contain a UIWebView, but most of MobileSafari is built on WebKit.

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Safari for iOS is using WebKit2 (starting from iOS 8).
Details about WebKit2.
This seems to answer to your question.
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cordova apps use the UIWebView component to load the apps, it's based on safari (WebKit2) but it doesn't include the Nitro javascript engine (the one safari app uses), so your cordova apps will be slower than safari app executing the same code.
Once cordova 4.0 is out, it will include "plugable webviews", that means, you will be able to choose which webview to use from any of the webviews available on the SDK (right now UIWebView and WKWebView)
If you can't wait for cordova 4.0, you can use the WKWebView plugin
WKWebView is based on safari too, but it uses the Nitro javascript engine, so it's as performant as safari app
Here you can read a full article about the comparison between UIWebView and WKWebView
The main difference is, as I mentioned before, WKWebView uses the Nitro javascript engine that is faster than the one used on the UIWebView,
and WKWebview supports IndexedDB and ObjectStore ArrayBuffer.
CSS compability and rendering is the same for UIWebView, WKWebView and safari app

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