AMD Announce Canvas for IE9?
On Tuesday, a post on AMD’s blog by Robin Maffeo gave the biggest indication yet that the canvas element will feature in Internet Explorer 9. The blog post, which spoke about how IE9 will take advantage of the GPU read:
The <canvas> element will be accelerated on the GPU via Direct2D and will enable hardware accelerated rendering contexts for application development, improving visual display, reducing CPU usage, and improving power usage.
A few days later, Robin realised his mistake editing out the mentions of canvas and providing an update:
Got a little ahead of myself; Microsoft did not announce they were supporting <canvas>. However, they did say that all of Internet Explorer 9’s graphics, text, and rendering will be hardware accelerated.
While this isn’t a confirmation Internet Explorer 9 will support canvas (that will need to come from Microsoft), it is the biggest indication yet that canvas is on the agenda.
The Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview also released on Tuesday does not provide canvas support, but it also does not support HTML5 video, something which Microsoft have confirmed support for and which will be shown in future preview releases.
Comments
Mark Hall
Not sure I would get my hopes up about this. I think Microsoft’s Silverlight also uses a “canvas” tag that’s specific to Silverlight and has nothing to do with the real canvas tag.
Posted on May 10, 2010
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