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So why isn't Android innovating in this space?

• Raphael 16y ago
  Good question. Opera Mobile for Android just came out and has some interesting features (tabs, bookmark sync) and SVG support, which is oddly lacking in the stock Android browser. Firefox mobile is in beta as well, with roughly equal features as Opera, plus extension support. I'd like to see the default browser get more frequent updates, though.
• ergo98 16y ago
  Not sure why Android gets pulled into this, however in addition to the fact that Android 2.2 has far and away class leading canvas and JavaScript performance -- the poor performance on iOS is why so many apps go native on that platform for trivial needs -- and brings virtually all of the Google Gears functionality that became the foundation of "HTML5" to Android (web databases, web workers, geolocation), the next version of Android is going to feature optional javascript access to the camera, among other improvements. Android is innovating heavily, and your comment is way off base.