IE9 Hardware Accelerated Graphics

[u2joshua1]

Thanks,it works amazing on my HP DM3 and i like IE9.

IE9 is like 40x faster than Chrome and Firefox 4.

You can see it when you play an Full HD video on YouTube with IE9 and than the same video with Firefox 4 or Chrome.

Than IE9 plays it perfect,and Firefox 4 and Chrome are failing big times.

[tony18mo]

I have IE 9 beta on my PC and it is still slower than Chrome for normal browsing...but i am glad to see it support HW Acc

[julz115]

iv seen the clip im wonderin wat adobe works wiv the iE9 julie

[julz115]

ie9 is fantastic but it wont let you play flash games julie

[rivengle]

@julz115 it does for me.

[indochinero]

Hmm I diid that test and in my chrome is faster , no like the viideOo

[darkultra]

Is the FPS capped at 60? I'd like to be able to use all the hz I got, and these new 120hz "3d ready" monitors are getting reviewers very enthusiastic. They all awe over how smooth windows and mouse cursor are at 120hz :)

[iGarthi]

@darkultra Hertz(hz) and Frames per second(FPS) are two different things. Let me put it like this, Frames per second determins how well something will play, if you have a poor system, and try to play a newer game, it will most likely play with low fps, which will make the game choppy. Hertz is how blurry an image or video will be on your monitor, the refresh rate, higher the hertz, the more clearer a video will look.

[darkultra]

Does Internet explorer 9 have an advantage over Firefox, opera and chrome by using APIs or undocumented calls that are closer to the Windows kernel? I find Firefox are much slower at Direct2D than IE9.

[ytvoice1]

And, what is my web experiense in... IE6? IE7? IE8?

;) ;) ;)

Don't think this will catch on. Not for a looooong time. But anyways, that is not the goal of MS either. Their goal is to "sell" the HW A as Win7/Vista only, then making people upgrade.

Since Chrome is working on HWA as well, and have come quite far, they may make a Chrome frame OR the chrome for XP with the same speed. Then this speaking of "HWA" is quite outdated ;)

So, again: What is my web experiense in IE6, 7 and 8???

[iGarthi]

@ytvoice1 Actually, they decided to quit supporting Windows XP in what was it, 2005? They've already declared they're not supporting it, that's why they didn't release Internet Explorer 9 for XP.

LEARN TO FUCKING SPELL YOU RETARDED FAT PIECE OF SHIT. You have a nice day now.

[hanrinch]

ie 9 will consume a lot of resource. better feature always comes sacrifice

I'm staying with ie7...

[grandmastgarth]

@hanrinch That's where you're wrong.

[pascbjumper2]

But can it lift a ball?

[privacyyyyy]

I think IE is gonna be fast and awesome like back in the day's.

Better then Chrome Or Firefox Or Safaria Or Opera.

I'm using Firefox now because IE is low atm.

But can't waith for IE9 to be released.

It will pwn every Browser.

Google sucks like always. And Safari is good but not for windows only for Mac os x.

[LuigiPeach]

@privacyyyyy You can always count on Microsoft for implementing new features nobody really needs in order to look innovative.

BTW Firefox is better with HTML5 than IE.

[JoeyJoeJoe5000]

@LuigiPeach Agreed.

Opera 10.60 runs that demo at 60fps.

[ytvoice1]

@LuigiPeach My experiense is, that Firefox is the most standard complant browser. This is from experiense with real life web pages. Every other browser has major problems, and not the same place. IE8 for example introduces errors in CSS2.1, which was not in IE7. Chrome/webkit has positioning problems, and so does Opera.

This makes me believe every company exept for Mozilla, are rushing their developing, and missing final testing.

[ytvoice1]

@ytvoice1 The List is as follows for the major browsers - the 1. place is the one with the fewest errors in CSS:

1. Firefox

2. Opera

3. Chrome/webkit (if we are talking CSS3, Chrome jumps a place down, it is really really horrible, especially rounded corners)

4. IE8

[sharpersoftware]

My Opinion: Microsoft will most likely release this and then a week later release the SDK and then all the other browsers will implement it in their code and it will be standard.

IE9 isn't better its just got SDK's and API's that other developers don't have.

Personally the only reason i had IE as the standard for my client networks was the automatic domain registration with ISA Server, but now All browsers have that.

[Ormaaj]

@sharpersoftware IE doesn't have to worry about being cross platform. Their APIs are probably targeting strictly directx/direct2d. it doesn't really matter anyway because IE9 won't support webgl. That's also an old stable build of chrome. Current SVN chrome runs that demo just fine for me. Gotta love the dishonest tactics of comparing Chrome stable against IE vaporware.

[mezclasraras]

i have not faith in explorer...

[arfason]

Why is there color differences ?

It is not part of hardware accelerated graphics to change it, isn't it ?

[xrimpy]

IE SHould DIE.

You fuckers make shit software and it is frustrating coding on your stupid but popular platform.

We spend 30% extra time doing IE related bugs.

[jnrolf]

Love this! 10/10

[mostliberal]

Does it still have huge security holes, a long ass start-up time, and a long ass web page loading time?

[FuckYouLetMeLogIn]

Yeah? What is this good for, except perhaps flash games?

[24065894]

sites render more quickly, so the end user experience is a bit better (its not just for fancy 3d stuff).

[FlowTraceur]

This i quite amazing ! ;] I really hope Microsoft gets through with IE9 , they already screwed up with the start of Windows Vista and it all went downhill from there , Microsoft is redeeming itself with Windows 7 , Windows Phone 7 series , excellent performance ! Lets hope they don't screw up with IE9 like they did with the last 3 browsers (although IE8 is quite nice in my opinion , excellent browser , although not on my 6 year old PC ;DD)

[24065894]

hehe, use google chrome on your 6 year old pc ;)

[FlowTraceur]

i do , but i made tests for all the popular browsers (Firefox , IE8 , Safari , Chrome and Opera ) for my shitty PC , the best is Firefox ;] so im sticking to it for now , i just don't have the cash for a new PC sadly ;( fuck the recession , it hit really freaking hard in Lithuania , 17 percent of the country right now is jobless

[24065894]

sux yep, I know how that feels :(

Though it suprises me that firefox runs nicer on your 6 year old pc, I dont see that very often :)

[FlowTraceur]

Surprisingly it does ;] , But my computer should run better but for some reason , i Have 1,5 Gb Ram DDR1 , Pentium 4 3,0 Ghz , FX5500 Geforce , and it runs like shit actually , it can't even run Counter Strike 1.6 normally , i produce music now , i need a good computer , and i have to stick to this piece of shit :D The cooler on my video card isn't even working

[Kmezon2]

awesome! Chrome is great, but this could be the only reason I switch back to IE one day

[shmookins]

Interesting. Is hardware utilization new to browsers? Do other browsers use hardware like IE9?

[24065894]

The upcomming firefox (3.7) will have hardware acceleration support, and without a doubt google chrome will have hardware support even sooner.. its the next best thing all browser companies are working on :)

IE tech team should focus on javascript performance which is extremely poor compared to chrome...

[shmookins]

Thank you for a very educational post/reply. :)

[pascbjumper2]

@24065894 They're working on that as well, though I doubt it'll be able to compete with Chrome's JavaScript integration.