Internet Explorer 9 Supports Canvas!
This week Microsoft have announced that Internet Explorer 9 WILL support the HTML5 canvas element – and what’s more, it’ll be hardware accelerated!
With the third platform preview, we introduce support for the HTML5 Canvas element. As you know our approach for standards support is informed both by developer feedback and real word usage patterns today, along with where we see the web heading. Many web developers have asked us to support this part of HTML5 and we definitely took this feedback into account as we prioritized our work.
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. We’ve rebuilt the browser to use the power of your whole PC to browse the web. These extensive changes to IE9 mean websites can now take advantage of all the hardware innovation in the PC industry.
Internet Explorer 9 looks to be a very promising release full of features from HTML5 and performance upgrades. The fact it supports CSS3 multiple backgrounds has me very excited for instance. It’s good to see IE back in the game.
Be one of the first to use canvas in Internet Explorer 9 by downloading the third Platform Preview.
Comments
Mark Hall
Well I’ll be darned. Pigs are flying, hell is freezing over, and Internet Explorer is supporting Canvas.
Posted on July 2, 2010
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