Microsoft has just demonstrated Internet Explorer 9 Preview 3 (IE9) in San Francisco with hardware partners. What’s new is that Microsoft has integrated Direct X for 2D and video acceleration for HTML5 content. Microsoft showcases this with hundreds of 3D fish swimming in IE9 at 60fps with no lags, by fully utilizing graphic acceleration.
It’s a very neat idea to offload the work from the CPU to the GPU to handle what they’re good at, and that is graphics. What’s more, they’re based on Direct X which the graphic vendors, Intel, Nvidia, and AMD are good at. It looks like massively awesome graphics experience will be dreams come true for web developers as they can finally embrace what they wish to show, and fully capable on the browser. Looks like Firefox and Chrome needs to catch up with this new trend. However, its still sweet times as the web has yet to fully embrace HTML5 standard, and so Google and Mozilla can take their time to develop this build across multiple platform.
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