IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas 265
An anonymous reader writes "Over on the IE blog they have a rundown of IE9's hardware accelerated support for the canvas element. They write, 'With the recent release of the latest IE9 platform preview, we talked about how we're rebuilding the browser to use the power of your whole PC to browse the web, and to unlock a new class of HTML5 applications. One area that developers are especially excited about is the potential of HTML5 canvas. Like all of the graphics in IE9, canvas is hardware accelerated through Windows and the GPU. In this blog post we discuss some of the details behind canvas and the kinds of things developers can build.'"
Re:A house built on sand cannot stand. (Score:3, Funny)
Are you entering the bugs you find at connect.microsoft.com?
Re:I seem to have missed why we'd want this (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe you could take your non-IE9 browser to the demo pages linked from the article you'll be able to see if they're doing something standard or something non-standard.
Here's a link:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/DeepZoom/Default.html [microsoft.com]
Rather than telling you what will happen if you go to that page in, say, Safari, I'll let you go ahead and experience it for yourself. Just think of the thrill you'll get when finding that you're totally right that MS just can't do anything to spec, or maybe you'll be thrilled to find that, OMG!!!!, they're adhering to the draft standards as they exist today.
Which do you think it is? The anticipation almost makes you want to pee, doesn't it?
(Next time spend ten seconds to find out before you shoot your mouth off and demonstrate the accuracy of the old saw: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
Re:A house built on sand cannot stand. (Score:0, Funny)
submit bug reports to a non-open source browser. Why bother?
Re:A house built on sand cannot stand. (Score:5, Funny)
Last time I wanted to report a bug to Microsoft, they tried to bill me for "support". OK, it was 15 years ago, but I'm not much minded to go back and see if they've stopped beating their customers. It still hurts, man. It still hurts.
Re:Zero to botched in 60 nanoseconds? (Score:4, Funny)
One of the things I like the most about Windows 7 is that unlike XP my RAM actually is being used for something useful, instead of sitting empty most of the time. I have about 500Mb of my 8Gb free, because thanks to Superfetch Windows knows which programs I use and when and has them waiting in RAM for me.
Linux has this as well. It's called Preload [sourceforge.net].
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