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Fair enough, the iPad 1 is ancient, but my comment applies to any iOS device stuck in iOS 12 or older. I'm thinking particularly of the lack of support for pop
by rekoil 4y ago
Fair enough, the iPad 1 is ancient, but my comment applies to any iOS device stuck in iOS 12 or older.
I'm thinking particularly of the lack of support for popular ES2020 features like nullish coalescing, which is simple to implement (but Apple prohibits developers from shipping browsers), and can technically be transpiled away, but is indeed more commonly seen in production code every day.
There are a lot of 2014 iOS devices in this category, all with dual-core CPUs and 1GB RAM, which should be totally fine for simple web browsing in theory. E.g. iPads Air 1st gen and mini 3rd gen, as well as the hugely popular iPhone 6/6 Plus.
Yes, these are old devices, and I don't suggest they continue to be used, but there is no performance-based reason they should be incapable of rendering a simple web site in 2022, provided someone were allowed to build a new browser for them.