DirectX is used in the backend to make HTML and SVG faster and smoother (in both browsers). Just make a couple OpenGL wrappers for 2D HTML display, OS-style control drawing, and text functions, et voilà, you have a more interoperable version of these tricks.
This has little to do with e.g. WebGL, which is 3D extras tacked on to canvas. I think.
At least they figured out CSS3 selectors. IE8 can't even get all of those--"From the 43 selectors 22 have passed, 1 are buggy and 20 are unsupported (Passed 349 out of 578 tests)" on mine.
WebGL is pretty much extras to make canvas draw 3D stuff (right?).
IE9 and the newer Windows Firefox builds, on the other hand, want to run other things--SVG, HTML text,...--faster and smoother-looking by just drawing them with Direct___ APIs behind the scenes (instead of GDI like they always have). Those are different goals, and (I hope) not mutually exclusive--I'm sure some of us would want to have both spinny 3D canvas widgets and big-ass HTML docs run at a silky clip if we permit them at all.
the only thing we'd risk by disarmament is invasion by ponies farting rainbows,
Do not underestimate said ponies' ability to psychologically harm. The millions of glittery MySpace pictures and "Squee!!!~ ^_^"s that young American girls would emit at the sight of them would haunt public health officials for decades.
More importantly, where is Mara Jade in a skimpy kick-ass undercover dancer's uniform? Don't get me wrong, Leia looked good in gold, but you just can't beat the idea of a piss-and-vinegar redhead in similar attire.
Fuck yeah. Given this announcement and the whole Jar Jar thing, they might as well just appeal to our (well, my) prurient interests already.
'These circuit families store not just data, but their basic function electrically,' says Lloyd W. Massengill, director of engineering at the Vanderbilt Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt University. 'In the unfortunate event of a particle flipping just the right bit, a circuit configured to carry out a benign action may be reprogrammed to carry out some unintended action.'
Shouldn't there then be a well-insulated ROM copy in the car that can replace corrupt values with reasonable defaults from time to time, or a "Check Chips at Mechanic" light that, well, tells the driver to send the car with its chips to the mechanic?
--and bloody Hell, change that family name before your discoveries end up on Slashdot!
Being consistently wrong for a very long time doesn't make it better, it is just proof of
an unwillingness to admit to a stupid initial mistake you didn't even make yourself.
This. When I see someone say "k = 1024 is the right way" or such, I think of others that say "we've always put IN GOD WE TRUST on our bills", "no one's ever stolen money from me so I shouldn't need a safe or a bank account", or "it's not like I have a pre-existing condition that'll keep me from an HMO".
Microsoft had announced it would join the SVG Working Group, and that IE9 would use Direct2D and DirectWrite (connect the two freakin' dots), weeks if not months ago. I hope others here are merely acting like SVG (of some sort) in IE9 is news, and not actually surprised with Acid3's breath behind their neck and all.
Now, a final version of IE9 with a perfect implem of the language, or one that rivals those of Firefox, Webkit, or Opera? That would be news.
The (US) Americans would catch on to your twisted deed when they think, "What's a Nunavut? --waaait a minute, he's making up names for countries now! This can't be Obama!"
Sure bet that no one in middle school knows what a Nunavut is, and by Foxworthy's Law there must be a negative number of US adults who do. I'm not sure how these antiadults would manifest, but the ongoing census will probably figure it out. Maybe their annihilative contact with actual adults is the real cause of "suicide bombings". I dunno.
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Okay, the study parameters look good, but why the hell is there a Psych Prof at the head?
Prof
I may be a Psych and not BioChem, but I'm the best in my field. I need the money dammit! You'd be insane not to take me!...*sobs*...I'll lose my mind if I can't pay my bills...*sobs* *chokes*
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[softly] Umm, Mr. Sponsor Guy, he's a Psych Prof.; he knows a thing or two about insanity...
Sponsor
[softly] You're right, my good peon... [loudly] *slams back of retractable pen on desk* Well then, sobbing Psych Prof it is! *signs bluish gray paper* Check's innnnn the maaaail...
Fortunately, people who still use Facebook can't even spell "spreadsheet", so we're safe for now.
If they achieve sentience and Microsoft Excel literacy, though, then pile the sandbags, man the machine guns, and prepare to hunt the zombies. Otherwise, they will spam their Twilight-themed sheets through email and we will be doomed.
--but seriously, now that I think of it, a Twilight-themed Excel file would nauseate me to no end.
Microsoft has said they'll use the "Direct"s in IE9* and that they've joined the SVG working group, and have already done vector stuff with VML, so it's clear they want to use the Directs to implement (some subset of) SVG. They got Acid2 working in IE8, so they may as well punch in the SVG stuff used in Acid3; and if they can make a nice, fast GPU-land engine that renders the hypertext and the shapes, IE9 could actually be nice. IE8 can still be slow with pages, such as Wikipedia's often-long list of featured article candidates (though I've tried it now and it doesn't seem as horrible as I remember...hmm), so the GPU stuff may help.
*One of the comments there reads, "instead of focusing on things like: Direct2D and DirectWrite, please focus on better STANDARDS SUPPORT!" I think, and hope, that bort is missing the point.
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They clearly have a different meaning of "dong"le in mind.
(Quotation mark intentionally misplaced.)
One member suggested "DIAF Pty.", but peers quickly roasted him for the mere thought.
Or maybe they just felt lucky.
DirectX is used in the backend to make HTML and SVG faster and smoother (in both browsers). Just make a couple OpenGL wrappers for 2D HTML display, OS-style control drawing, and text functions, et voilà, you have a more interoperable version of these tricks.
This has little to do with e.g. WebGL, which is 3D extras tacked on to canvas. I think.
At least they figured out CSS3 selectors. IE8 can't even get all of those--"From the 43 selectors 22 have passed, 1 are buggy and 20 are unsupported (Passed 349 out of 578 tests)" on mine.
WebGL is pretty much extras to make canvas draw 3D stuff (right?).
IE9 and the newer Windows Firefox builds, on the other hand, want to run other things--SVG, HTML text, ...--faster and smoother-looking by just drawing them with Direct___ APIs behind the scenes (instead of GDI like they always have). Those are different goals, and (I hope) not mutually exclusive--I'm sure some of us would want to have both spinny 3D canvas widgets and big-ass HTML docs run at a silky clip if we permit them at all.
Do not underestimate said ponies' ability to psychologically harm. The millions of glittery MySpace pictures and "Squee!!!~ ^_^"s that young American girls would emit at the sight of them would haunt public health officials for decades.
Fuck yeah. Given this announcement and the whole Jar Jar thing, they might as well just appeal to our (well, my) prurient interests already.
...or if they've come on our metals and women. (Eww.)
...which brings us back to where we started; they've clearly fixed n security issues, where 0 <= n <= 1800. :)
But then management will reject the title and call it Friends with Benefits to capitalize on Aniston. (Then I'd be even more interested in watching.)
They'll only use a single digit for the number, and start changing the letter. We'll soon have IE1, IE2,... IE6,... IE9,...
...then they'll run out of letters and start using numbers, as in I12, I23, I95...
Fuck canvas--it's patented Apple crap and redundant. Gimme my Scalable Vector Badgers. Forget Norway.
Shouldn't there then be a well-insulated ROM copy in the car that can replace corrupt values with reasonable defaults from time to time, or a "Check Chips at Mechanic" light that, well, tells the driver to send the car with its chips to the mechanic?
--and bloody Hell, change that family name before your discoveries end up on Slashdot!
This. When I see someone say "k = 1024 is the right way" or such, I think of others that say "we've always put IN GOD WE TRUST on our bills", "no one's ever stolen money from me so I shouldn't need a safe or a bank account", or "it's not like I have a pre-existing condition that'll keep me from an HMO".
Sometimes, traditions are wrong.
Microsoft had announced it would join the SVG Working Group, and that IE9 would use Direct2D and DirectWrite (connect the two freakin' dots), weeks if not months ago. I hope others here are merely acting like SVG (of some sort) in IE9 is news, and not actually surprised with Acid3's breath behind their neck and all.
Now, a final version of IE9 with a perfect implem of the language, or one that rivals those of Firefox, Webkit, or Opera? That would be news.
I've always thought of Twitter as a retarded Blogger on speed. (Some former Blogger employees helped make it.)
The (US) Americans would catch on to your twisted deed when they think, "What's a Nunavut? --waaait a minute, he's making up names for countries now! This can't be Obama!"
Sure bet that no one in middle school knows what a Nunavut is, and by Foxworthy's Law there must be a negative number of US adults who do. I'm not sure how these antiadults would manifest, but the ongoing census will probably figure it out. Maybe their annihilative contact with actual adults is the real cause of "suicide bombings". I dunno.
Sponsor Okay, the study parameters look good, but why the hell is there a Psych Prof at the head? Prof I may be a Psych and not BioChem, but I'm the best in my field. I need the money dammit! You'd be insane not to take me! ...*sobs*...I'll lose my mind if I can't pay my bills...*sobs* *chokes*
Asst. sponsor
[softly] Umm, Mr. Sponsor Guy, he's a Psych Prof.; he knows a thing or two about insanity...
Sponsor
[softly] You're right, my good peon... [loudly] *slams back of retractable pen on desk* Well then, sobbing Psych Prof it is! *signs bluish gray paper* Check's innnnn the maaaail...
One (or two) of those words is not like the other words.
I know, right? They should've went the extra inch, and make it record 1080p and play it out via 75-ohm coax, DisplayPort, and twitter. Wimps.
That's why we call it the BlackBerry. You pull some weird patent shit with it and we blacken yeh fuckin' berries with a billy club, capiche?
Or like a fat ass at Duane Reade, at least until Walgreens draws their new blueprints.
Fortunately, people who still use Facebook can't even spell "spreadsheet", so we're safe for now.
If they achieve sentience and Microsoft Excel literacy, though, then pile the sandbags, man the machine guns, and prepare to hunt the zombies. Otherwise, they will spam their Twilight-themed sheets through email and we will be doomed.
--but seriously, now that I think of it, a Twilight-themed Excel file would nauseate me to no end.
One Windows 7 feature/API/interface/whatever Microsoft has been pushing these days is Direct2D and DirectWrite. (That's two, I know; just play along.) Basically a way to draw vector shapes and smooth text and shit with a DirectX-based COM interface. The text is a bit different from the usual ClearType, because it smooths vertically as well as horizontally.
Microsoft has said they'll use the "Direct"s in IE9* and that they've joined the SVG working group, and have already done vector stuff with VML, so it's clear they want to use the Directs to implement (some subset of) SVG. They got Acid2 working in IE8, so they may as well punch in the SVG stuff used in Acid3; and if they can make a nice, fast GPU-land engine that renders the hypertext and the shapes, IE9 could actually be nice. IE8 can still be slow with pages, such as Wikipedia's often-long list of featured article candidates (though I've tried it now and it doesn't seem as horrible as I remember...hmm), so the GPU stuff may help.
*One of the comments there reads, "instead of focusing on things like: Direct2D and DirectWrite, please focus on better STANDARDS SUPPORT!" I think, and hope, that bort is missing the point.