Web vs. iOS. Choppy vs. smooth. Free vs. paying.

I'm just annoyed at the quality of the web, the accepted standard is all choppy

and not smooth. Most of the web would be completely unacceptable by iOS standards.

Yet we continue with a remarkably similar state to our past.

"Well if the web is soo choppy, point out some examples"

Sure. Off the top of my head...

Github: We love reloading pages.

Linode: "Unleash your inner geek" ..

...and find yourself complaining on HN about the <img> tags with no width and height attributes! (http://www.linode.com/tour/)

Design principal: Humans are very sensitive to movement,

so please make sure your pages don't twitch when the user loads them. Let's up the standards of the web.

The fact that iOS is soo much smoother than the web doesn't contribute much to why iOS is soo much more profitable,

but you can the fact most of the web is choppy doesn't help when we want users to pay for our web apps.