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Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by InclinedPlane »

melling wrote: post #18
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.

IE had 95%. Things change, sometimes things change quickly. Everyone who is capable of using facebook is capable of installing chrome or firefox. If IE truly fell behind, if a new killer web-app/site comes along that didn't work in IE the marketshare numbers would change overnight.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by modeless »

cninja wrote: post #4
walkon wrote: post #2

Not trying to detract from Chrome here, but IE9 should have a similar ability: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/09/Benefits-of-GPU-...

Not trying to detract from IE9 here, but Opera already has a similar ability: http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega The interesting parts of the article are the implementation details about the sandbox.

Opera's hardware acceleration is vaporware. It has not been included in any release of Opera, despite that article being over a year old now.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by jamesbritt »

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, ..."

I'm pretty sure I get notifications for Windows Updates when there's a new version of IE. And even if not, I've somehow gotten IE 7 or 8 on an XP install, so it's no different than when Mozilla or Google announce a new release. If you want it, you get it.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by mambodog »

est wrote: post #19

Also Flash 11 is about to support 3D and it looks serious http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20009940-264.html Unity3D is at a turning point.

Yeah, it is at a turning point, it's about to become plugin-less using Native Client.

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/05/19/google-android-and-the-f...

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by fjarlq »

melling wrote: post #18
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.

Holding steady? How do you figure that, exactly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#His...

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by andreyf »

jamesbritt wrote: post #23
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, ..." I'm pretty sure I get notifications for Windows Updates when there's a new version of IE. And even if not, I've somehow gotten IE 7 or 8 on an XP install, so it's no different than when Mozilla or Google announce a new release. If you want it, you get it.

If you want it, you get it.

The people who want it are irrelevant. So are the people who don't want it. Both are minorities compared to the people who don't care, and just pick the default option. Chrome's default is to silently upgrade, and light a tiny orange dot when you need to restart.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by mike-cardwell »

walkon wrote: post #15
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…

Most people have no idea what a browser is. As long as MS ship IE as the default browser without choice, they will have a massive competitive advantage and keep the majority of users.

In European versions of Windows, you now get a choice between which web browser to use. That's about as fair as it's going to get.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by norswap »

andreyf wrote: post #27
jamesbritt wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle, ..." I'm pretty sure I get notifications for Windows Updates when there's a new version of IE. And even if not, I've somehow gotten IE 7 or 8 on an XP install, so it's no different than when Mozilla or Google announce a new release. If you want it, you get it.

If you want it, you get it. The people who want it are irrelevant. So are the people who don't want it. Both are minorities compared to the people who don't care, and just pick the default option. Chrome's default is to silently upgrade, and light a tiny orange dot when you need to restart.

But when it comes to browsers, IE is the default option, so that shouldn't hurt them, really.

Re: Chrome will use gpu to render pages

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Post by ck2 »

It would have been helpful to have some kind of benchmark to show performance improvements or cpu load reduction.

I guess this is more important for advanced features like canvas than regular browsing.

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