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You're right, it's what they advertise officially, but now that we're talking to engineers, we get the gritty details, a story I accept: D2D is a layer that do
by djacobs 16y ago
You're right, it's what they advertise officially, but now that we're talking to engineers, we get the gritty details, a story I accept:
D2D is a layer that doesn't exist in Windows XP. Where it does exist (Vista and 7), you can use it to switch between hardware- and software-accelerated rendering. Where it does not exist, they would have to rewrite entire libraries or APIs to interact with the XP kernel. According to the answerer, rewriting these libraries would amount to rewriting IE9 as IE8 with a GUI upgrade.
(That the graphics rendering sits inside the kernel is another problem, but not likely one these guys can fix.)
- noibl 16y ago> According to the answerer, rewriting these libraries would amount to rewriting IE9 as IE8 with a GUI upgrade. I couldn't find this in the discussion. It also seems unlikely given how tangential D2D is to most of the interesting features in IE9.
- djacobs 16y agoSelf-correction: the "IE8 with a new GUI" comment wasn't made by the engineer. Here's the discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_members_of_the_ie9_product_team_here/c10vxly http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_memb...