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There are just a few days left until Microsoft will launch Internet Explorer 9 Beta, with the Beauty of the Web event on September 15th getting closer and closer, and the company notes that it is welcoming the competition from rival browsers in terms of hardware acceleration, but that IE9 is best in breed in this regard.
Hardware acceleration involves leveraging the computer’s GPU (graphics processing unit) in concert with DirectX APIs in order to enhance graphics performance for all webpage content.
Ted Johnson, Program Manager Lead for Web Graphics notes that while Internet Explorer 9 offers full hardware acceleration, the other browsers support it only partially, and as such are bound to deliver an inferior performance to users.
Until the fourth Platform Preview of IE9, Microsoft had enabled hardware acceleration by default, and applied it to a wide variety of elements on a webpage, from text, to images, backgrounds, borders, SVG content, HTML5 video and audio, but also HTML5 canvas.
Johnson noted that there are three steps in page rendering in IE9:
“Content Rendering. IE9 accelerates the first phase, Content Rendering, using Windows’ Direct2D and DirectWrite subsystems
Microsoft: IE9 Is the First and Only Browser to Deliver Full Hardware Acceleration - Softpedia
Two more days and the beta is out!through the regular MS sources that is!
IE 9 will be taking advantage of the vpu power for a change as a tool for both 2D and 3D rendering which will likely end up in seeing far fewer lags when loading pages typically seeing the ads animation slow things down a bit.
aye, aye - I cannae wait, cap'n..
Will the beta be available for everybody to download
Of course, it is only a matter of time before the other browsers have this too.
Should be happening here tomorrow: Beauty of the Web
Bet the MS haters cant wait until tomorrow. Their fingers must be itching to type their usual pointless crap about how everything MS does is rubbish.
Personally i cant wait to give up using FF, although im not sure its going to happen just yet.
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