i thought hardware acceleration was only on flash etc? not the browser itself?
im guessing in the newer updated browsers, feature hardware acceleration in all aspects.
1. Performance – by utilizing power of graphics card rendering would become very quick.
2. Zoomed browsing – zooming in Internet Explorer 9 has also been hardware-accelerated.
3. Hardware-accelerated HTML5 video – With IE9, viewing video embedded in HTML page would be quicker as well. In a demo rival browsers were running processor for playing a single HD video, while the IE9 played two 720p HD videos and only used 30% of the CPU on a modest netbook.
4. Image and color quality -- Decoders are not only an estimated 30% faster than what was available in IE8, but WIC can now also deal with embedded color profiles in images, specifically ICC v2 and v4 profiles.
5. Text quality and performance – IE9 uses the GPU (via DirectWrite) to do text output – up to twice as fast as IE8, and with higher quality. Text can be smoothly animated in IE9, and sub-pixel positioning is a more faithful representation of the Web designer’s intent.
6. High-quality graphics printing – IE9 is capable of converting web content into the native XPS format supported both by Vista and Windows 7, when a print command is made.
