Latest Microsoft browser that features hardware-accelerated ie Internet Explorer 9 may be dominating the headlines this week, but Chrome does not wait for disturbing the dominance of these.
Google does not only release patches that fix vulnerabilities in the latest version of the Chrome browser on Tuesday, but also announced that its GPU acceleration features in the upcoming version 7 is Chrome will reach speeds 60 times faster than version 6. "This system takes the best graphics API for use on any OS that supports Chromium: XP/Vista/7 Windows, Mac OS and Linux," said Google software engineer James Robinson and Gregg Tavares on Chromium Blog.
"The figures indicate up to 60X speed initial version of Google Chrome improvement" they added. "With Google Chrome quick release cycle, we hope to obtain improvements for users to quickly and add new performance improvement over time. The latest beta version of Mozilla Firefox 4 also uses hardware acceleration for better speed
In addition to rapid advances in 2D graphics performance of Chrome, Google is also working on 3D graphics capabilities. "We're excited to give developers a fast 2D graphics, but we think really hard accelerate the graphics on the Web means that the developer provide access to 3D graphics programming with WebGL," Robinson and Tavares explains. "With 3D WebGL and CSS, developers can create the modern game, an impressive photo gallery, 3D data visualization, virtual environments, and anything they can dream. Chrome developer version 7 is now available, with a stable release is expected later this fall.
Google does not only release patches that fix vulnerabilities in the latest version of the Chrome browser on Tuesday, but also announced that its GPU acceleration features in the upcoming version 7 is Chrome will reach speeds 60 times faster than version 6. "This system takes the best graphics API for use on any OS that supports Chromium: XP/Vista/7 Windows, Mac OS and Linux," said Google software engineer James Robinson and Gregg Tavares on Chromium Blog.
"The figures indicate up to 60X speed initial version of Google Chrome improvement" they added. "With Google Chrome quick release cycle, we hope to obtain improvements for users to quickly and add new performance improvement over time. The latest beta version of Mozilla Firefox 4 also uses hardware acceleration for better speed
In addition to rapid advances in 2D graphics performance of Chrome, Google is also working on 3D graphics capabilities. "We're excited to give developers a fast 2D graphics, but we think really hard accelerate the graphics on the Web means that the developer provide access to 3D graphics programming with WebGL," Robinson and Tavares explains. "With 3D WebGL and CSS, developers can create the modern game, an impressive photo gallery, 3D data visualization, virtual environments, and anything they can dream. Chrome developer version 7 is now available, with a stable release is expected later this fall.
