"IE9 Trident is going to be better than WebKit (e.g. hardware acceleration)"
You must be joking. It's great that they have finally decided to add SVG support, but bragging about SVG "hardware acceleration" when they won't even commit to supporting the canvas tag is unconscionable.
It's also this kind of thing that makes it clear that either the IE team has its priorities completely out of whack or that Microsoft is trying to throw a spoke in the wheel of progress on the web.
Edit: I don't know what you hope to gain by downvoting. It doesn't change the fact that IE is and, from all indications will continue to be, the odd browser out.
Right, MS is actively trying to slow down progress. Republicans eat old people's medicine, democrats want to kill babies. Facebook wants to steal your soul, Google wants your first born child. Sure.
You're not getting the point. It doesn't matter that you provided an alternative, it's that you suggested the idea at all. That sort of sectarian bile I'd expect to find at Slashdot, not here.
> You must be joking. It's great that they have finally decided to add SVG support, but bragging about SVG "hardware acceleration" when they won't even commit to supporting the canvas tag is unconscionable.
No, it's not just SVG that will be hardware accelerated. Everything will be rendered in the GPU.
> It's also this kind of thing that makes it clear that either the IE team has its priorities completely out of whack
On what basis do you make this judgement? Why is supporting canvas better than making everything hardware accelerated?
Because for the vast majority of web development, having browsers with similar performance to other browsers while supporting the same standards is vastly more preferable than having one widely-used browser with better performance in some areas that continues to make cross-browser development difficult or impossible.
I disagree. I think given the choice to do only one thing out of the two, browser vendors should focus on things that fundamentally improve users' experiences with what they already have than implement random specs. I think the lack of canvas is disappointing too, but I think if the IE folks had decided to implement Canvas but not use Direct2D I'd be much more disappointed.
(Of course, you could be awesome like Mozilla and do both, but that's a different matter.)
This difference of opinion is exactly why the argument is invalid unless engine A is strictly better than engine B. WebKit is not strictly better than IE9 Trident.
You must be joking. It's great that they have finally decided to add SVG support, but bragging about SVG "hardware acceleration" when they won't even commit to supporting the canvas tag is unconscionable.
It's also this kind of thing that makes it clear that either the IE team has its priorities completely out of whack or that Microsoft is trying to throw a spoke in the wheel of progress on the web.
Edit: I don't know what you hope to gain by downvoting. It doesn't change the fact that IE is and, from all indications will continue to be, the odd browser out.