From all benchmarks at bubblemark.com iPhone is only capable to complete dhtml one.

Here are the results compared to Safari 3.0.3 (Windows) running on my laptop.

Note that iPhone framerate is capped at 27 fps, which is probably reasonable to keep it stable. iPhone JavaScript performance in this test is roughly equivalent to Pentium M running at 66 MHz and approximately 1/10 of the laptop running in a power saving mode. Developers beware!

Here are the numbers used in the chart:

Pentium M 1.7 GHz
Safari 3.0.3 (Windows)

1 - 96 fps
8 - 93 fps
16 - 92 fps
32 - 62 fps
64 - 30 fps
128 — 10 fps

Pentium M 1.7 GHz @ 600 MHz
Safari 3.0.3 (Windows)

1 - 96 fps
8 - 90 fps
16 - 65 fps
32 - 26 fps
64 - 10 fps
128 — 3 fps

Apple iPhone (ver. 1.0.2)

1 - 27 fps
8 - 22 fps
16 - 9 fps
32 - 3 fps
64 - 1 fps
128 - <1 fps

Loudtalks was among 39 startups selected to present at TechCrunch40 conference in San Francisco. We launched the product on the stage today. I encourage you to try it and share your experience.

More in the Loudtalks blog. Thanks everyone in the team for making it happen!

A splash page with an edit box for an email address — this is how most of yet to be launched websites look. I suggest to use “disposable” RSS-feeds instead. Disposable means it only delivers a single message — launch announcement and keeps silent before that. Such feed could be marked by a special icon (I tried to make the one by laying a rocket icon from KDE Crystal theme over standard RSS icon). You can see a live example here or embedded below.

Launch feed has few important advantages over email box:

1. RSS is pull technology so there is no spam concerns. User identity is not disclosed.
2. It’s easy to track for the user, what she has subscribed for.
3. RSS is perfect for aggregation so it would be possible to build the website (your next start up?), where users can subscribe to a single feed and get notified about product launches (all or belonging to a specific category) even before TechCrunch writes about them.

Meanwhile you may subscribe to the one below to get notified about availability of Loudtalks — a secret project of Metalink, which we’re launching this month.

Loudtalks Launch Feed