- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 00:53:49 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 1 May 2010, ryan14 at mail.com wrote: > > My suggestion for the HTML5 spec is that the video tag should have a > feature that can enable GPU acceleration on a user's graphics card, so > it will take some stress off the CPU. > > Do you like my suggestion? Why would a user ever want anyone to disable their GPU acceleration? On Sun, 2 May 2010, Simon Fraser wrote: > > The only reason I can think of why this should be exposed to web authors > is if a browser is unable to use GPU accelerated for video without side > effects (like always rendering on top of the rest of the content). Such > an option would be similar to the "wmode" param on plugins, which is a > huge mess, and should be avoided at all costs. One of the benefits of > video being a real HTML element is that it respects CSS properties like > any other element. Indeed, it seems like we'd just want this to be automatic. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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