Slides are great but they miss so much from the original talk. Slides are for people who already saw the talk and want that last bit of info. Anyone have a link to the live talk?

I believe it's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8lm4GV7ahg

Huge thanks for this!

There are show notes at the bottom of each slide.

Unfortunately the document is under heavy load, which means it sometimes loads in presentation mode, which doesn't have the show notes.

Google Cloud world class tech support™: Hit S for speaker notes or the gear icon for the menu item (yes, under any amount of load)

Do I read this right? Does this suggest that Chrome will get GPU accelerated rendering, similar to what Firefox's Quantum Renderer will provide?

All browsers have had GPU-accelerated rendering in some form for years now. Mobile Safari has had a GPU-accelerated compositor since 2007.

The primary difference between Chrome and Firefox Quantum Render (WebRender) is that Chrome maintains a distinction between painting and compositing, while WebRender mostly collapses the phases into a unified rendering step (and Pathfinder even more so). Everything in Chrome other than media and WebGL goes through a vector graphics API (Skia) before being handed to a compositor that draws tiles on screen. But WebRender renders CSS content directly to the screen, like a game would.

Chrome's had GPU rendering for a while now actually (as has Firefox), those slides were just explaining the basics of how that rendering works.

It already does, there are a couple hack fixes for Safari that force GPU rendering when it otherwise wouldn't.

Somehow I expected it to be about the life of a tracking pixel, through ad networks, CDNs, iframes, and it's ultimate legacy as small point of data in an analytics log trace.

I thought it was going to be about the Pixel phone and how it lasts or doesn't

It doesn't. Mine paperweighted itself last week.

Working on pixel phones, "pixel 2018" is a common moniker for pixel 2 before its model name is chosen, relatively late in the product development cycle. Before then it was wahoo or taimen (or other things before directors settle bikesheds).

I though it was going to be either a physical display technology, a Google phone, a Google laptop, or an analytics tracker.