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Internet Explorer -- GPU-accelerated HTML5/Interwebs; ALL apps hardware accelerated
I have no idea why we've had to wait quite this long for DirectX utilization in the browser. Zooming, scrolling, physics -- all REALLY fast, really smooth.
They are now talking about SVG in the keynote -- and of course, they're using Clippy as an example. It seems like IE9 (or at least the developer version) can modify SVG mark-up in real time, through a console. Very cool. We'll see the same with WebGL no doubt. Now Clippy has appeared in a real-time multiplayer browser game -- one's in Firefox, one's in IE9. Both running the same code.
Big news: standards don't interact. A Flash element is locked within its box. It looks like IE9 might have less boundaries on element interactions (look at the Falling Balls demo in the IE9 Test Drive)
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Subscribe to commentsNickMar 16th 2010 1:41PM
I thought Firefox 3.7a3pre also had OpenVG acceleration for SVG?
Sebastian AnthonyMar 17th 2010 6:11AM
Could be! I would expect to see quite a lot of GPU-acceleration in Firefox by the end of the year, bit by bit.
jabapyth+dlsMar 16th 2010 5:51PM
Wow, how can they do that!!! oh wait, maybe because they're the only major browser that doesn't care about cross-platform.
fail
gerardMar 16th 2010 9:20PM
"DirectX utilization in the browser. Zooming, scrolling, physics -- all REALLY fast, really smooth."
- This will have nothing to do with "physics". Right now it's just about rendering HTML.
- To be fair, the first real browser to support "DirectX utilization in the browser" was Internet Explorer 4.0. The Microsoft API ( Chromeffects / DirectAnimation ) gave you access to additional JS libraries to do hardware accelerated 3D and even map HTML content on 3D objects ( an MS proprietary equivalent of what WebGL will be as a standard ).
Sebastian AnthonyMar 17th 2010 6:11AM
Hehe, good point, re: IE4 :)
It looks like physics to me though -- did you see the Falling Balls demo?
skalpaMar 17th 2010 10:29PM
Mmm... The Balls demo is more showing the speed of the Javascript Engine than anything else (as the comment says at the bottom ;-) ).
But anyway, I globally agree that all this is *very* interesting. Whatever most kids say nowadays, and as much as I like the modern open-source rendering engines, I don't forget that when 12 years ago the IE team tried to make the best browser of its age, they managed to do it (WYSIWYG content editing, AJAX/XmlHttpRequest, Vector Graphics, Graphics Acceleration... It was IE4 / IE5 ).
And if that time they're back in the game for real as IE 8/9 tend to show it, but this time taking the "standards" way, the next years could be really exciting.