- From: Eduard Pascual <herenvardo@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 11:20:35 +0200
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:25 PM, ?<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? > > Nothing is stopping browsers from using the GPU to help speed up > <video> playback right now, and in fact I think that some browsers are > either already doing so, or are planning to do so in the relatively > near future. As a matter of fact, Microsoft already announced that IE9's rendering engine would use GPU acceleration as much as possible (leveraging MS Windows' DirectX technolgies) [1]. Some benchmarking of the platform preview vs. IE8 show a more than welcome improve on performance [2]. Thus, it's not a matter of accelerating just <video>. UA vendors are allowed to use any available technology, such as GPU processing, to improve the user experience on all aspects; and IE9's approach will benefit not only <video>, but everything that the browser renders (for example, heavy JS-based animations may take huge profit from this). I'm not a big fan of Microsoft's IE software, but I must concede that the Redmond guys have taken a step on the right direction with this. Especially having seen how IE8 was painfully slower than its older siblings (IE6 and 7). I wouldn't be surprised if other browsers follow suit. Regards, Eduard Pascual [1] http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/IE-9-Surfing-on-the-GPU-with-D2D/ [2] http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmullinax/archive/2010/04/02/nvidia-shows-off-ie9-gpu-accleration.aspx
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