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Geee, I wonder why?
Could it be because noone can use javascript properly on real world sites because IE6, IE7, IE8 have effing 1/100th the javascript performance as any other major browser????
I thought that IE just like any other Windows program is using Windows core APIs like GDI+ to display text. And those APIs, in turn, are hardware-accelerated as much as possible. These days the entire desktop is essentially a "game" running on top of DirectX, no?
Even back in 1995 most of GDI 2D functions were hardware-accelerated, assuming you had a good card with good drivers.
What am I missing? (I haven't done any Windows work in 5 years).
No announcement yet on @font-face, canvas, video. Basic performance improvements.
Next thing you know we'll have commercials saying "IE9? That was my idea!"
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At least it's almost as fast as the slowest competitor...
Yeah, I love how they say IE is no longer an "outlier." They need to use trickery in the graph so that it's hard to tell that it's still 3x slower than Chrome or Safari.
Summary: still a long way to go. No announcement yet on @font-face, canvas, video. Basic performance improvements.
It's possible that IE will implement the upcoming WOFF (Web Open Font Format) standard in IE9 but I wouldn't rely on it.
Regarding hardware-accelerated drawing of text: I thought that IE just like any other Windows program is using Windows core APIs like GDI+ to display text. And those APIs, in turn, are hardware-accelerated as much as possible. These days the entire desktop is essentially a "game" running on top of DirectX, no? Even back in 1995 most of GDI 2D functions were hardware-accelerated, assuming you had a good card with good…
"Sub-pixel positioning" on the other hand would indeed need to be handled inside of the browser, so that the engine knows how much space something takes up so it can position the next item- But the picture accompanying the post is wrong/irrelevant.
Honest question: what does Microsoft stand to gain by doing all this work instead of just using WebKit?
Honest question: what does Microsoft stand to gain by doing all this work instead of just using WebKit?