You have gotten it down to a science. This is exactly what was, is, and will continue to be the pushback from the fanbois, when it comes to the poor safari experience.Canonical response:
Now: duh, iOS 8 is a BETA!
8.0 release day: It'll be fixed in .1
8.1 release day: (A) It wasn't an issue to begin with, (B) you're a troll, (C) wait for 9.0
And there's a new feature, if you scroll down the page the navigation bar shrinks like in the iPhone
- Upgrade the NAND flash storage to an SSD like Apple uses in other products (and enable paging).
it's exciting for the tabs to refresh, your websites' versions will be on the bleeding edge!
You have gotten it down to a science. This is exactly what was, is, and will continue to be the pushback from the fanbois, when it comes to the poor safari experience.
Still find it odd this affects iPads and not iPhones if its a RAM issue.....
Though I suppose someone mentioned iPads having to cache larger pages and such so they take up more space.
I've had no problem with tabs reloading on my 5S, but I do run into this on my Air.
The iPad has a lot more pixels than the 5s. That impacts RAM quite a bit.
That'd be great, but SSD class memory is still too costly at this point.
Instead, phones use relatively inexpensive Flash memory, which also has a relatively low write cycle lifetime. It's more than enough for regular usage, like adding a few songs each day, but not for a situation where code is constantly writing web cache or doing OS paging.
Plus, the constant page refreshing causes extra online ad & website view counts, so you can claim personal web usage dominance!
The same thing happens to the iPhone and it already has more ram. Anytime I open Safari on my 5S, the currently open tab always reloads. How much ram would be needed to fix this if 2GB isn't enough because apparently, it's not.
That sure is one way for Apple to increase mobile safari market share.
The same thing happens to the iPhone and it already has more ram. Anytime I open Safari on my 5S, the currently open tab always reloads. How much ram would be needed to fix this if 2GB isn't enough because apparently, it's not.
it's exciting for the tabs to refresh, your websites' versions will be on the bleeding edge!
And there's a new feature, if you scroll down the page the navigation bar shrinks like in the iPhone
theres nothing to fix
I've dissected a Chinese-branded Android tablet and it uses the same Crucial/Micron MLC ONFi NAND flash found in numerous SSD's (I checked the part numbers). The difference is unlike in SSD's, you only have one or two of these modules installed so not much parallelism going on and the controller logic is built into the CPU instead of having a separate CPU/controller. No DRAM cache either. Yes, I know the iPad uses eMMC which combines a relatively simple controller and NAND flash in a tiny package. Thing is a full SSD (even M.2 or mSATA) is just not particularly feasible for a device in the iPad's class as it would use up too much space and power (relatively speaking).That'd be great, but SSD class memory is still too costly at this point.
Instead, phones use relatively inexpensive Flash memory, which also has a relatively low write cycle lifetime. It's more than enough for regular usage, like adding a few songs each day, but not for a situation where code is constantly writing web cache or doing OS paging.