iBooks better than Safari

  • Just a short notice about performance in iBooks

    My tests for my large museum tour also includes iBooks.

    The 1.5 GB tour with around 75 panoramas some of them including 40-70 hotspots has to work on an iBook.
    I just made a test version and to my surprise the performance is much better than in Safari on iPad.

    Safari has dancing hotspots even on my iPad Air while Chrome, Mercury and Atomic web has not.
    Chrome has a little jumpy panning on iPad 3 but hotspots are almost fixed to the pano.

    The surprise is that the iBook version works perfect without dancing hotspots even on the iPad 3.
    Updating to 8.3 seems to have given a little boost in performance.

    Quite weird that Apple has a better "engine" in iBooks than in Safari.

    BTW the iBook was installed via Dropbox. This worked OK but probably because of the size it is some problem
    to show the option for transferring it to iBooks after downloading. Closing dropbox and opening it again seems to solve it.
    It took 10 minutes to download via my 50 megabit connection, and then 15 min to install in iBooks.

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