Nitro, to my knowledge, only optimises Javascript performance, but JS performance is not the only bottleneck. We noticed that DOM manipulation together with style and layout calculations play a big part, see http://blog.mikie.iki.fi/2014/02/some-numbers-on-mobile-safa...
It's very tough to make a quality app using HTML5 if you use gestures and animations. Coding it in native Cocoa/Objective-C is much easier at the moment than trying to polish that last 10-20% of your HTML5 app performance.
It's very tough to make a quality app using HTML5 if you use gestures and animations. Coding it in native Cocoa/Objective-C is much easier at the moment than trying to polish that last 10-20% of your HTML5 app performance.