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I guess they missed the fact (in their claim to be the first to have GPU-accelerated graphics) that Safari (and any modern Mac application) has been GPU-acceler
by cpr 17y ago
I guess they missed the fact (in their claim to be the first to have GPU-accelerated graphics) that Safari (and any modern Mac application) has been GPU-accelerated since about 10 years ago (moving more and more into the GPU with Core Graphics over that time).
- sketerpot 17y agoAlso, Firefox (and other Gecko-based browsers) have had GPU-accelerated SVG rendering since 2006.
- rimantas 17y agoeven some phone (called iPhone iirc) has hw accelerated CSS transforms and animation…
- sern 17y agoNo they don't. Core Graphics still works mainly on the CPU. Only compositing is GPU-accelerated by default. (CG actually has an option to put window backing stores in video memory, called QuartzGL, but even though it's been there since 10.4 it's still not the default - pretty much only Preview uses it.)
- cpr 17y agoNote that compositing is involved in nearly every graphical operation, which means that nearly everything benefits from the GPU acceleration.