IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas

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.'"

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Re:Zero to botched in 60 nanoseconds?

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And when they say that they want to use all PC resources - are they really providing anything useful with that or are they just going to hog the whole computer?

Maybe Microsoft should take a course in how to write efficient and safe code first. By integrating and using a lot of features like GPU:s and other stuff you will also limit which platforms the software can be used on as well as building a solution that contains a complexity that can be hard to grasp and maintain in the long run. A great opportunity for malware producers because they can now start to scan for new interesting attack vectors in a solution.