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Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
- powrtoch 16y agoWhat a misleading headline. "Internet Explorer 9 beats Chrome in hardware-accelerated canvas rendering, fails to beat several other browsers (video)". Much better. But hey, gets less clicks right?
- jolie 16y agoIt's one of those things that you don't want to be true... But there it is. Ben Parr was at a press event today for IE9 and confirmed to Mashable staff that, according to the tests, IE9 is gonna be hella fast.
- ppplll 16y ago...why do you not /want/ it to be true?
- macemoneta 16y agoIt's a good thing that all other browsers have stopped development. Or maybe a better test would be comparing browsers with hardware acceleration against each other? Does anyone compare two games, one with hardware rendering and one with software rendering? No, of course not. That would be crazy.
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoChrome is currently the fastest at this; what else would you have them test against?
- pyre 16y agoThey can test against whatever they want, but the fact still remains that IE9 is basically using 'specialized hardware' to reach that speed. What happens when Chrome also supports this specialized hardware? [i.e. I hope that the IE Team doesn't feel like they can skimp on performance elsewhere by just throwing hardware at the problem, rather than fixing/improving their engine.]
- macemoneta 16y agoThe current developer build of Chrome/Chromium has hardware acceleration (switch enabled). The 3.7 developer build of Firefox also has it (and it's supposed to be faster than IE9). Why didn't they compare those, since IE9 is also a developer build?
- henrikhansen 16y agoChrome's acceleration is not of the entire page. It is only acceleration of things like 3D transforms and a few other things.
- sid0 16y agoChrome is currently the fastest at this No it isn't. Firefox in software mode (release builds) is generally faster than Chrome when it comes to canvas. Firefox in hardware mode (pre-release, Direct2D) is around as fast as IE.
- acg 16y agoA competitive marketplace is proving better than stagnant monopoly. Long live the competition.
- jufemaiz 16y agoCongrats to the IE team for getting back on the rails! More competition in this area is a bonus - now we just have to ensure that microsoft continues to sound out valid reasoning to get the vast proportion of Enterprise that still is on IE6 updated (and thus shift their legacy apps from proprietary hacks to a far more future "proofed" (resistant really) standards base).
- postfuturist 16y agoUsing hardware acceleration in a contrived example, IE 9 is faster at rendering fish. Yawn. Nothing Microsoft does now can make up how awful IE 6,7, and 8 are and the fact that most of my day-to-day pain is caused by supporting their crap-tastic browsers. Even IE 8 leaks memory like a sieve.
- lhorie 16y agoAm I the only one who's actually excited that Microsoft is actually making some very tangible improvements to the IE platform?
- davepeck 16y agoThe "let's hate on MSFT for past browser wrongs" attitude is worrisomely common and accepted 'round these parts. It's a strange form of blindness. From where I sit, IE9 looks like a genuine attempt by MSFT to get back in the race.
- melling 16y agoLook, I really dislike Microsoft, but we're not allowed to discuss why on HN. :-) However, IE9 really can catapult the Internet to the next level by being highly standards compliant and having great performance. Let's give them credit on this one. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera competing against a strong contender from Microsoft is a great thing.
- tomjen3 16y agoLets give them credit when ie9 has 97%+ market share of the IE browsers. Anybody can make a nice demo, it is getting people to use it that matters.
- zweben 16y agoWhat's frustrating to me is that they could fix the problem of high usage of old IE versions. They just seem to be unwilling to. They could add in IE7's and IE8's rendering engines into IE9 as compatibility modes, push out IE9 as a forced or automatic update and have HTML5 ready to use in a few weeks. But they seem to be more worried potential whining from update-averse users than holding back the technological progress of the entire internet.
- caffogene 16y agoI don't care if IE9 is ten times faster than Chrome. I can never be an Internet Explorer evangelist. The wound is just too deep.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoTLDR/W: Hardware accelerated IE9 HTML5 canvas beats non-hardware accelerated Chrome 6 development HTML5 canvas.
- jasonlotito 16y agohttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/24/4-way-html5-speed-test-firefox-3-7-faster-than-internet-explorer-opera-chrome/ http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/24/4-way-html5-speed-te... It beat hardware accelerated chrome as well. Firefox 3.7 actually came out on type by a bit in the end at a 1000 fish.
- pyre 16y agoToo Long Didn't Read/Write?
- sil3ntmac 16y agoToo long didn't read/watch, I'd guess.
- jurjenh 16y agotoo long didn't really want (?) Worrying about canvas graphic acceleration without having a standard canvas implementation may be jumping the gun a little, although traditionally that is how HTML has been advanced. Its a case of premature optimization, but then there is potential for payoff in being first to market with a winning strategy...
- SkyMarshal 16y ago^This. Hard to read a video, but I wasn't sure people would get TL:DW without actually going to the site, which would have made a TLDR unnecessary.
- galois 16y agoTLDR/W = I hate Microsoft because I think doing so makes me cool in this community and I will get freebie points for bashing them.
- Buzzzz 16y agoPretty cool, now we only need to bring hw accel to linux and firefox :). My main browser will allways be a open one since we really shouldnt trust corporations in keeping the we open. //Anders
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoAll the other browser already have hw acceleration in various stages in their "preview" builds, in released builds to some extent too.
- Buzzzz 16y agoBut not on linux/*bsd right? Guess you have to have a quite new mac for that too ( my 2008 Macbook wount cut it I guess :( )
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoDepends which browser/feature you're talking about. The WebGL stuff I believe is hardware accelerated in Linux Firefox, but some of the video stuff is Windows only for now and some other stuff is Vista & Windows7 only currently. For the Mac are you talking about H.264 acceleration? Apple have historically not exposed the hardware acceleration features of the graphics cards they shipped, often not even using it themselves and just using software decode. They've changed this recently by making use of some (but not all) of the Nvidia (but not ATI) decode capabilities but it's not the hardware that's missing for many older devices, it's access to the hardware that only Apple can provide. These capabilities are accessible if you're running Windows or Linux on that same hardware.
- cool-RR 16y agoI'm disappointed they didn't make a three-way comparison with potatoes.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoIn the Mr Potato head example video demo Chrome has 25fps before you click anything i.e. just displaying a static canvas doesn't get up to the 60fps seen for IE9. It also returns to only 25fps after everything stops moving again after you shoot the gun. I thought that was a bit strange, so I tried to reproduce it. In the live demo the fps meter only appears after you fire the gun, and (apparently) stops with the last value after the items stop moving. What's going on there?
- heresy 16y agoI work with large 3D models in my day job. Hmm, maybe I should switch the competition's product to use software rendering, and I'll use OpenGL/DirectX, for side-by-side comparisons. Wow, I'm "destroying" my competition...