Chrome 18 arrives with hardware-accelerated Canvas  Reply to
topic 47 posts • Previous     • 1   • 2   • jeblis wrote:
I'm impressed. Open a new ars link in a background tab, rendered
before I can switch.      Whatever you're experiencing, it's not
the new functionality referenced in the article, that's not the
kind of content that's being accelerated and Ars doesn't use the
Canvas element in their pages.      The Canvas element is not
for standard page content, it's a specialized element for
generating dynamic or procedural bitmaps, for things like a
HTML5 image editor or game, things that may be too intensive or
complex to display otherwise, hence the acceleration.
Chrome's been able to accelerate standard page content for ages
but the functionality is behind a flag     (about:flags > GPU
compositing on all pages > Enable for anyone who wants to try).
Liquid Snake X wrote:      Chrome gets pretty buggy when I do
that (some things on the page don't display right or aren't
clickable like they're