iOS 6 Mobile Safari – HTML5 Game Developer upgrades

A nice write-up on what HTML5 Devs can expect from iOS 6.

Big ones for HTML5 game development: Web Inspect/Remote debugging (Yay!), Web Audio API, Full Screen view in Landscape Mode, requestAnimationFrame.

These have not been verified, although I’m sure they will be soon – I’ll believe Web Audio API when I see it – the rest of them seem plausible.

Update: Apparently it’s true!

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