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But: Safari 5 has hardware accelerated graphics on both Mac and Windows for HTML5 video. Which I imagine is as relevant to most people, even geeks like me, as a

But: Safari 5 has hardware accelerated graphics on both Mac and Windows for HTML5 video. Which I imagine is as relevant to most people, even geeks like me, as a 10-20% speedup in Javascript. For example, watch the video at http://videojs.com/ http://videojs.com/ in full screen on Chrome and Safari. Last time I checked it looked way better in Safari. That said, Chrome team moves fast and maybe they will have it fixed soon. If you're interested in progress you can track the issue here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38969 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38969

modeless 16y ago
Not only video but also hardware-accelerated CSS animations and 3D transforms. Safari has the most advanced graphics architecture of any browser right now, and all the major browsers are working on catching up. Firefox's plan: http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2010/01/18/layers-cross-platform-acceleration http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2010/01/18/layers-cross... IE's plan: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/04/09/benefits-of-gpu-powered-html5.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/04/09/benefits-of-gp... Opera hasn't publicly announced hardware-accelerated graphics yet, but they are moving to a new codebase that could support it in theory: http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega Chrome actually seems like the least far along right now, which seems odd given their focus on performance. Some of the work was done for them by Apple in WebKit, but there's still a lot to be done.
- sgift 16y ago
  According to this http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/12/22/ http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/12/22/ Opera already moved to the new codebase, but still no hardware acceleration at the moment.
est 16y ago
> But: Safari 5 has hardware accelerated graphics on both Mac and Windows for HTML5 video. IIRC Google Chrome use Google Skia to reader webpage and graphics, which is based on OpenGL. I assume OpenGL is automatically hw accelerated?
- modeless 16y ago
  Skia is not based on OpenGL and Chrome is not hardware accelerated. http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/graphics-in-google-chrome.html http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/graphics-in-google-chrome.h...

modeless 16y ago

Not only video but also hardware-accelerated CSS animations and 3D transforms. Safari has the most advanced graphics architecture of any browser right now, and all the major browsers are working on catching up. Firefox's plan: http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2010/01/18/layers-cross-platform-acceleration http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2010/01/18/layers-cross... IE's plan: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/04/09/benefits-of-gpu-powered-html5.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/04/09/benefits-of-gp... Opera hasn't publicly announced hardware-accelerated graphics yet, but they are moving to a new codebase that could support it in theory: http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega Chrome actually seems like the least far along right now, which seems odd given their focus on performance. Some of the work was done for them by Apple in WebKit, but there's still a lot to be done.

sgift 16y ago
According to this http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/12/22/ http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/12/22/ Opera already moved to the new codebase, but still no hardware acceleration at the moment.

est 16y ago

> But: Safari 5 has hardware accelerated graphics on both Mac and Windows for HTML5 video. IIRC Google Chrome use Google Skia to reader webpage and graphics, which is based on OpenGL. I assume OpenGL is automatically hw accelerated?

modeless 16y ago
Skia is not based on OpenGL and Chrome is not hardware accelerated. http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/graphics-in-google-chrome.html http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/graphics-in-google-chrome.h...