"If you ask me, GPU rendering simply doesn?t
seem like anything that will change the game ?
sites that require GPU acceleration should just
be redesigned."
Today - yes.
Tomorrow, or in the future? Heck, if the web
became GPU accelerated, can you imagine the
possibilities?
Running games in the browser without Flash?
Mac-like (or Office 2010-like) presentations in
a browser?
Web sites with cool (or gaudy) morphing UIs
(again without using Flash)?
Combine that with JIT-compiled JavaScript and
SVG, and you've got serious competition for
Flash.
For all intents and purposes - it could
seriously cripple the demand for Adobe/Flash.
Flash is popular, but IMO mostly because
there's not much competition. If this can
compete with Flash, yeah it could be a
game changer.
Firefox is also looking at GPU acceleration:
http://tech.icrontic.com/news/mozilla-adds-
hardware-acceleration-to-firefox-3-7/
"but in my opinion, a blink of an eye for
thinks that fast is longer than it sounds."
It can be especially important in code with a
lot of recursion or loops. It'll be interesting
to find out what ultimately becomes more
important.
I think it's JIT compiled, though, so it should
still be plenty fast enough for real web
applications.
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