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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.'"
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I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
I wouldn't care if it had 100 percent support for blowing me every 5 minutes. I'm done with ie. Microsoft has enough influence and money. It's time to give someone else a chance.
You almost had a worthy point until you ruined it by acting like an obnoxious jackass. That's right about the time I lost interest in whatever else you had to say.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
It's mods like this that have made this site indistinguishable from digg. Stay classy Slashdot.
And with the busted metamoderation (I used to metamod every day) which NOBODY USES ANYMORE because the INTERFACE SUCKS and POLLUTES YOUR COMMENT HISTORY, bad moderators never get slapped.
This is what Web2.0 does. It takes something once useful, wraps shit around it, and then all you smell is the stench of bad javascript.
And that's just the metamoderation problem. I haven't even mentioned the story picking, which is not only atrocious, but lags behind Digg which lags behind Reddit.
It's a real shame to have watched Slashdot go from one of the leading sites on the 'net to just another busted blog. /rant.
drop support for ie...?
and there in a nutshell is why html5 is doomed. please go ahead and waste your own time on this unwanted and pathetic project but try not to pester others with it.
of course if you couldn't evangalise for yet another pathetic new version of html then it wouldn't be so much fun would it now?
wow, so you don't think that perhaps you might have been mistaken in trying to do a web game in html5...?
having looked at your game it is rather crap - even if you did it in flash it would probably still suck (and i usually like this type of strategy game.)
perhaps you should just try something else, like pottery?
If Microsoft needs to do something special in order to get hardware acceleration for the HTML canvas, then there is something seriously wrong with their graphics APIs. A window system should automatically use GPU hardware for all 2D and 3D graphics where possible; application programmers shouldn't have to do any special work to do it.