differences between uiwebview and mobile safari

Question

Have looked far and wide for info and have found no definitive list. Please add your observations. I'm sure it will come in handy to all.

Answer 1

The main differences are the address/search bar attached to the top of the page and the User Agent.

(note: there are plenty of others, but these are the few that usually matter)

Answer 2

Two obvious ones I have come across are authentication and pages with frames.

For authentication, UIWebView does not handle authentication challenges automatically, it's up to the developers to handle them.

For pages with framesets, UIWebView does not keep track of the browsing history for page transitinos within frames, which may be a desirable feature. It needs a bit of fiddling to accomplish this.

Answer 3

You can set the initial max size for HTML5 SQL in Mobile Safari to 50MB, but UIWebView seems to be limited to 5MB. It refuses anything higher.