22 December 2010 0 Comments

Happy Hardware Accelerated Holidays

Here are two new HTML5 experiences you can run in your browser, designed in the spirit of the holiday season and with hardware accelerated HTML5 in mind. Check out Santa’s Workshop , where the speed of your browser on your PC determines how many elves help pack Santa’s bag for the big night, and how fast they work

9 April 2010 0 Comments

Benefits of GPU-powered HTML5

At MIX 10 we showed how we’re building on new Windows technologies like Direct2D, DirectWrite and XPS to enable Internet Explorer 9 to render all standards-based web content – text, images, video and SVG – using the power of the GPU. In this blog post we’ll review the major improvements for web developers and users that come from building on these Windows technologies