In the past two years, the major web browsers have added support for the graphics processing unit (GPU) that’s a part of every PC. You might be aware that the GPU is there, but it rarely got used if you weren’t playing games. Quietly, the GPU is being put to work in non-entertainment ways. GPUs [...]
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Will the Next Web Platform Please Hold Still?
Here is a seemingly simple enough question: What’s the minimum level of browser support provided by your team’s Web site? If your answer is Internet Explorer 6, which officially died in October 2006, then every browser maker today including Microsoft will tell you that’s not what it should be. You’re not taking advantage of the [...]
Rethinking Performance in a Post-Desktop, Browser-Based World
With JavaScript toolkits increasing their own performance by as much as 1000% per year, coupled with browser makers tripling their products’ performance in the same interval, Web sites everywhere should be accelerating by unfathomable factors. And that’s the problem: They’re not.
