I've been doing a little bit of research lately about iPad and iPad apps. Not too much research, but enough to where I feel like sharing something with you all. The author of script.aculo.us, Thomas Fuchs, wrote a great article on how to make your iPad HTML5 apps run faster. Here are the key takeaways:

1. Images slow things down immensely – get rid of them
2. Avoid text-shadow & box-shadow
3. Hardware-acceleration is quite new... and buggy
4. Use touch events whenever you can
5. Avoid opacity
6. There is no silver bullet – hand-code JavaScript and CSS
7. Use translate3d, not translate

I didn't go into too much detail here, so please, do me a favor and check out the original article. It's a good read.

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