Introduction

Web technology is the world's most widely used language and platform, and it is possible to efficiently develop HMIs for embedded products by leveraging the knowledge and experience of existing Web developers and frameworks.

Web technology (HTML5) is sometimes criticized for its lack of functionality and slow performance compared to native applications, but in most cases this is not a limitation of the browser's rendering engine or JavaScript engine, but rather a problem with the frameworks, libraries, and implementations used. In most cases, this is not a limitation of the browser's rendering engine or JavaScript engine, but a problem with the framework/library or implementation.

The following pages provide basic knowledge about the performance of Web content, internal configuration information to change the behavior of the Gecko engine, and other useful fundamentals for the embedded Web.