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Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by InclinedPlane »

As exciting as it is for IE9 to enter the next-gen browser wars in earnest I wonder if they are already too late.

IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle, which is a significant disadvantage when all your competitors are on months long cycles. Saddled with such a huge OODA disadvantage as well as all the strategy-tax BS from MS is there any hope?

By the time IE9 is actually out Chrome may well have hardware accelerated everything, an LLVM client/plugin model, javascript that runs faster than Java, and client-side Erlang support (or who knows what), with Firefox not far behind. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by jjcm »

Good - Opera, Firefox, and IE9 are all aready going this route. For Chromium not to support this would be a big thorn in their side, especially with their plans to support native code for extensions (aka, "Chrome Apps").

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by Legion »

swah wrote: post #13

I imagine this is related with WebGL support, right?

The article says, "New APIs and markup like WebGL and 3D CSS transforms are a major motivation for this work".

That's what makes it exciting. Hardware acceleration for rendering the front page of HN: not so exciting. Hardware acceleration for 3D APIs drawing stuff in a canvas tag: very exciting.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by walkon »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #11

As exciting as it is for IE9 to enter the next-gen browser wars in earnest I wonder if they are already too late. IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle, which is a significant disadvantage when all your competitors are on months long cycles. Saddled with such a huge OODA disadvantage as well as all the strategy-tax BS from MS is there any hope? By the time IE9 is actually out Chrome may well…

It does seem too late for them to pull off something like they did with IE6 versus Netscape, but I could see their genuine efforts with IE9 keeping them from getting thrown to the wolves by average users. Many people still using IE regularly probably don't care (or even know) what browser they are using, so if the websites they visit work, they'll probably never think of changing and just take whatever MS puts out. I think IE9 could come in time to at least maintain their total browser share of around 50% over the next five or so years.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by wmf »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #11

As exciting as it is for IE9 to enter the next-gen browser wars in earnest I wonder if they are already too late. IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle, which is a significant disadvantage when all your competitors are on months long cycles. Saddled with such a huge OODA disadvantage as well as all the strategy-tax BS from MS is there any hope? By the time IE9 is actually out Chrome may well…

IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle

Are you saying that IE 9 won't ship until Windows 8 ships? Because what I'v read shows IE 9 shipping in 2011 and Windows 8 in 2012.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by invisible »

wmf wrote: post #16
InclinedPlane wrote: post #11

As exciting as it is for IE9 to enter the next-gen browser wars in earnest I wonder if they are already too late. IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle, which is a significant disadvantage when all your competitors are on months long cycles. Saddled with such a huge OODA disadvantage as well as all the strategy-tax BS from MS is there any hope? By the time IE9 is actually out Chrome may well…

IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle Are you saying that IE 9 won't ship until Windows 8 ships? Because what I'v read shows IE 9 shipping in 2011 and Windows 8 in 2012.

If we're going to jump into that line of thought: Vista shipped 3 years late and with half of the "cool" features stripped out. I think the IE 9 team has something to prove now, and it's obvious Microsoft is making a push in making IE not suck.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by melling »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #11

As exciting as it is for IE9 to enter the next-gen browser wars in earnest I wonder if they are already too late. IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle, which is a significant disadvantage when all your competitors are on months long cycles. Saddled with such a huge OODA disadvantage as well as all the strategy-tax BS from MS is there any hope? By the time IE9 is actually out Chrome may well…

IE still has 60% market share, and it's holding steady. IE9 is going to be one of the most important products Microsoft ever ships. It will be compatible enough with web standards, and offer enough performance, that it should allow developers to build more sophisticated apps based on open standards. Html5, css3 and fast Javascript will soon be a given.
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