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IE9 Throws Down the Hardware Acceleration Gauntlet
An anonymous reader writes "Over on Microsoft's IE blog they have an interesting comparison of browsers with regard to hardware accelerated page rendering. They write, 'One of our objectives with Internet Explorer 9 is taking full advantage of modern PC hardware to make the browser faster. We're excited about hardware acceleration because it fundamentally improves the performance of websites. The websites that you use every day become faster and more responsive, and developers can create new classes of web applications through standards based markup that were previously not possible. In this post, we take a closer look at how hardware acceleration improves the performance of the Flying Images sample on the IE9 test drive site. When you run Flying Images across different browsers you'll see that Internet Explorer 9 can handle hundreds of images at full speed while other browsers, including Internet Explorer 8, quickly come to a crawl.' Absent from the comparison is a nightly build of Firefox with Mozilla's forthcoming Direct2D acceleration enabled."
But why? So I can support more flash adds on a page? Please, no...
What about those of us who don't want to see flying-rotating-3d-semitransparent-glowing-shaded adverts flying across our web pages.
Just use Lynx.
Why do people keep using idioms which don't mean anything in the modern language any more?
On naive reading it would sound like IE9 is giving up.
Right, they're quitting because that stupid Elf keeps shooting all the food.
You could upgrade your connection. That's hardware acceleration right there.
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You forgot a functional x86 emulator written in javascript so you can run Linux in Firefox in Linux in Firefox in Linux...
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Chrome is bitchin' fast. I know people complain about it being Google's evil eye of Sauron watching everything you do, but I don't care. It's bitchin' fast.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
for their shitty ie8 treats tag as a block level element. which means, you cant format or distribute long, populated forms properly with the use of divs, tables or any other form of structured output tag. adding "display : inline;" to a separate style declaration into the form tag doesnt fix it either. so, if you have any nested structure coexisting with the form, the tag acts like a or a
in regard to that structure in ie8. no other browser has this issue, not even ie6 has this issue.
this is a current hell, that i am in precisely at this second in time, and i have to fix their incompetence for my client.
so my advice to them is ; fix your browser before doing any 'acceleration'.
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He also forgot to tell us to get off his lawn. Or was that implied?
This is the entire human history of ignoring the loud and obnoxious rabble and jamming what needs to be done down the throats of the scared, huddled masses
fixed that for you. only half meant as a joke.
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
What about those of us who don't want to see flying-rotating-3d-semitransparent-glowing-shaded adverts flying across our web pages.
Just use Lynx.
$ telnet www.example.com 80
This discussion of idioms is just badong.
Got their first what?
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Starfleet's new proprietary warp 3 drives far outshine the open-source models. The teracochrane output isn't even comparable! You're barely going to get warp 2, 2.1 at best out of those F/OSS things.