Robert O’Callahan: “Full Hardware Acceleration”
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Microsoft marketing is making noises about IE9 having a monopoly on “full hardware acceleration”. They’re wrong; Firefox 4 has all the three levels of acceleration they describe.
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I’m pretty confident that our architecture will not cause us any performance disadvantages vs IE9. On the other hand, our architecture does let us deliver D3D acceleration for Windows XP users — which is still a very large market. (…) Our architecture also lets us deliver GL acceleration for Mac, X, and mobile devices, which is very important.
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BTW “full hardware acceleration” is a bogus phrase. All browser pick and choose how to use the GPU, and more use of the GPU isn’t necessarily better.