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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.'"
It's fast but can it render the page correctly? It doesn't much matter how fast it is if it doesn't do it right. IE8 is still a big turd - have they actually fixed IE9 or is it all smoke and mirrors by posting speed results? The last results I saw proved that they could pass the tests they wanted to pass but that they failed horribly at real world results. I guess if it's good enough for the education system then it's good enough for web browsers eh?
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And this time they would do it not by breaking standards, but by implementing them really well.
Those devious bastards, how dare they!
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Just drop IE support. It's not worth the effort. At least I wouldn't bother with anything alter than the newest version. Unfortunately IE still makes up half the visitors to my none geek sites but non-IE8 has dropped down to under 10% and those users convert to less revenue than other users.. so I've gradually dropped support. Nothing new is being tested for old versions of IE. I'm seeing the dropoff from IE accelerating as a whole. Firefox is at about 25%, Chrome and Safari make up another 15%, and Opera and iPod/iPhone/iPad/Android devices most of the rest. The speed of Chrome and mobile device growth is most impressive. Seriously considering versions formatted to the screen sizes of popular mobile devices.
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Side note:
I installed the IE9 Preview just to see what they would run like in there... they run quite fast.
Then again, MS provided demos aren't exactly the best way to test this.
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You do realise that Flash is hated not only, and not even most prominently, for being closed but for being a technical nightmare?
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Because just like any piece of software if it isn't reported it isn't likely to be fixed. Open source has zero to do with trying to improve the quality of a product. You don't need to see the source to submit a bug report.
Yeah, it could pass every test suite on the planet, but that doesn't mean they can't *add* their own little bit of kit to "extend" it in an incompatible or even *patented* way. Look at what they did with kerberos, or like, *any other standard* they've dealt with. To Microsoft, "standards are for chumps."
Saying "Microsoft is standards compliant THIS time" is just too much to swallow.
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Direct2D? DirectWrite? 15 years ago, we were calling that DirectDraw, and accelerated rasterisation was the hottest thing since sliced time. I guess what goes around comes around, and these kids today will be laughing at the new kids in another 15 years when they discover the wonders of DirectFlatOGram. Also, their Goddamn DirectNoise is too loud on my DirectLawn.
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Eh? What rock have you been sitting under?
CANVAS is a standard HTML5 element.
Hardware acceleration is coming to, or already is in some browsers.
Why would you NOT want this? Microsoft are actually competing for crying out loud, that is like a miracle if i ever saw one.
The only stupid part about all of this is MS don't seem to be backporting IE9 to XP because "Direct2D" is apparently only possible because the pure AWE of Windows 7...
At least, this was the last time i heard about it, they could well be doing it now since they want as many people away from IE6, which is plain not going to happen since they seem incapable of understanding exactly WHY people still use IE6!
The only people who still have to suffer IE6 is businesses who Microsoft got stuck in the ActiveX trap, which they then killed...
I love that they are adding HWA to it, especially considering how i will be building something around CANVAS pretty soon. IE9 isn't all that bad actually. I wouldn't even mind if they were using that browser anymore as it passes a fair amount of standards to the point where worrying over layout is a very small issue now.
I still personally hate it, the UI is awful.
Yeah, it could pass every test suite on the planet, but that doesn't mean they can't *add* their own little bit of kit to "extend" it in an incompatible or even *patented* way
You mean, like every other browser out there does? Have you seen how many "-webkit-*" CSS properties are there?
for someone like you flash might be a nightmare but for the millions of actionscript developers out there it seems to be quite useful :)
the reality is that for the end-user html5 means zilch. they'll continue using flash and won't even hear people like you as you whine from the sidelines.
Where have you been? The video tag debate is over seems flash won.
No, I mean stuff like this which people use today already to make iPhone/iPad-specific websites that break everywhere else.
It's funny how history repeats... MS has considered "-webkit-text-size-adjust" so popular that IE in Windows Phone 7 will support it, despite it not being any kind of standard. Can you say "document.all" and "innerHTML"?