Microsoft's upcoming update for its web browser, Internet Explorer 9, puts a lot of focus on support for the HTML 5 standards. IE9 is also expected to beef up performance, offloading tasks within the web browser to the graphics processing unit (GPU), or using separate CPU cores for certain elements of web pages if available.
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Seriously GPU supports fantastic... how long before someone works out a new code injection for that tho haha
What the world needs is to kill off flash, its crap for video over 320x240 and fails badly to give a stable frame rate, oh and no proper overlay support, just more cpu overhead.
GPU integration is one step closer to getting rid of adobes monstrosity and replace it with something modern that doesnt take a quad core system to just view 1080p flash video without deacking the cpu to 100%
"embracing HTML 5..." PLUS their OWN bastardizations they feel a need to include because they're more right than any community or standards organization?
microsoft is sure churning out new versions of IE. remember the huge gap between IE5 to 6. before they came out with 7. now 7, 8 and 9 under 3 years lol
Originally posted by creaky: However haven't been interested in IE since 6.0 anyway, nor have i used it much since then
He he. Same here. IE has never been my default browser. First it was Netscape with its multiple iterations, then Opera (when it was revolutionary) and Firefox for quite some time now.
