Hardware accelerated canvas is pretty slick.

equark · on June 23, 2010

Yup. On all the demos they have absolutely trounce Chrome. SVG too.

bd · on June 23, 2010

Are you sure about HW acceleration of canvas? I didn't find any mention of this in release notes.

I just ran few of my canvas demos in IE9 preview and while being pretty fast, they didn't seem to be HW accelerated.

Performance seems to be roughly on the Firefox level, which is less than Chrome and Opera (all current browsers do software rendering AFAIK).

Anyways, great news, web just got richer. Now let's start our prayers for WebGL ...

heyadayo · on June 24, 2010

"Like all of the graphics in IE9, canvas is hardware accelerated through Windows and the GPU. Hardware accelerated canvas support in IE9 illustrates the power of native HTML5 in a browser." [1]

They have a demo linked on that page where I get 1 fps when I run in it chrome. Their screenshot of IE9 running the demo shows 60 fps. I suppose hardware can make a difference, but thats its a really impressive.

[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/06/23/html5-native-t...