- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 02:09:00 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Dirk Pranke wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Dirk Pranke wrote: > >> > > >> > Why would a user ever want anyone to disable their GPU acceleration? > >> > >> I believe I've heard people say that they might sometimes want this for > >> power management, i.e. performing the same computation on the GPU might > >> take more power than performing it more slowly on the CPU. I imagine > >> this would depend on the specific configuration and computations > >> involved, though. > > > > This seems like a matter for the user, not the Web page, though. > > Ah, I knew you were going to say this. I agree, but I can also imagine > that the way the user selects this is by choosing one of two different > resources from a page, just like we do today for videos of different > bandwidths. It seems better to have a way for the user agent to automaically negotiate the right bandwidth usage based on user preference, too. Any setting like this that we offer authors _will_ be misused, possibly as often as used correctly. Unless there's a really compelling reason to have it, it seems better to let the user be in control. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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