iOS browser crash on ScrollView rotation

[Kerry]

I am having an intermittent problem with iOS browser, both Safari and Chrome crashing when rotation occurs when using ScrollView.  I have created a simple example of this at http://scrollview.azurewebsites.net/.  This example has a links to pages with varying amounts of ScrollView pages.  On my iPad Air (16gb Wi-Fi) I can usually get the browser to crash ("poof" go away) when using the link to the page with 12 pages and rotating the screen.  On my iPhone (5s 32gb) I can get it to happen less often.  I can't reproduce it on an Android Nexus 7.

I have recorded what I see on my iPad: http://youtu.be/9tDtEfMiMGI

In the example pages I am using above, the only custom JavaScript is what is necessary to get Kendo UI Mobile configured:
(function (global) {
    var mobileSkin = "",
        app = global.app = global.app || {};

    document.addEventListener('deviceready', function () {
        navigator.splashscreen.hide();
        $(document.body).height(window.innerHeight);
    }, false);

    app.application = new kendo.mobile.Application(document.body, { layout: "tabstrip-layout"});

})(window);

I am probably doing something totally wrong.  I would appreciate any guidance anyone can provide.  
Thanks!

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Kerry,

I tested your test page on iPad 2 with iOS 7 but did not manage to reproduce the crashing problem that you demonstrated in the video. We are not sure what exactly does wrong. Probably you are hitting a memory limit (usually iOS applications crash when they reach a given memory usage). It does not seem that you have opened any other Safari tabs.
My recommendation is to check the device logs for any information that might give a clue what the problem is.

You can reach device logs through the Settings app > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostics & Usage Data > find the latest mobile safari crash log and check for any exceptions/errors.

Regards,
Alexander Valchev
Telerik

[Kerry]

Below is the device log for the crash when I reproduced the problem:
It appears that you were correct, it is memory related.  The name of the device log file was: LowMemory-2014-02-27-073706.plist

I had closed all other apps before running the test.

Do you have suggestions on how to work around this problem?

Incident Identifier: 85D2EE1A-7DC0-407C-8DC3-24061E6D41DC
CrashReporter Key:   662a7013d1478d6297faa8ee88920e1f55f0be13
Hardware Model:      iPad4,1
OS Version:          iPhone OS 7.0.6 (11B651)
Kernel Version:      Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Fri Sep 27 23:08:32 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2423.3.12~1/RELEASE_ARM64_S5L8960X
Date:                2014-02-27 07:37:06 -0600
Time since snapshot: 624 ms

Free pages:                              6779
Active pages:                            100193
Inactive pages:                          40079
Speculative pages:                       5507
Throttled pages:                         0
Purgeable pages:                         2133
Wired pages:                             85393
File-backed pages:                       23711
Anonymous pages:                         122068
Compressions:                            503444
Decompressions:                          187084
Compressor Size:                         17137
Uncompressed Pages in Compressor:        50271
Largest process:   MobileSafari

Processes
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MailCompositionS <d72f366f086535d2b2e75d90fe5ede69>         8684             8684  100   [vm-pageshortage]  (suspended)
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         DuetLST <a8ba1e6da6bd390fb155000022a963eb>          589              589  100   [vm-pageshortage]  (daemon) (idle)
       accountsd <cb88b321caea305b819c78861c81b0c0>         1228             1228  100   [vm-pageshortage]  (daemon) (idle)
networkd_privile <ded764728f4d3166b5dcf2682afc97a8>           91               91  100   [vm-pageshortage]  (daemon) (idle)
   syncdefaultsd <8a5bc77b8e073d89b800a3b38240398c>          639              639  100   [vm-pageshortage]  (daemon) (idle)
         keybagd <191646aacbae3062b8471689120d732b>         1986             1986  100      [highwater]     (daemon) (idle)
            xpcd <140b5ddf31003794a1508a7bd32df86f>          353              353  100   [vm-pageshortage]  (daemon) (idle)
             lsd <1abde6d1af42396bbf166cc9e37ba914>          588              588  100   [vm-pageshortage]  (daemon) (idle)
       securityd <2b901d8dd49335ef82e69dd5b0ec70d3>          686              686  100   [vm-pageshortage]  (daemon) (idle)
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**End**

[Petyo]

Hello Kerry,

an alternative approach which comes to mind is to use the data-bound mode of the scrollview. In data-bound mode, only 3 total pages of the scrollview will be present in the DOM (previous, current, next). This should reduce the total amount of DOM elements and avoid the memory warning. 

Regards,
Petyo
Telerik