@Gerry: The fact is, they already have this really complicated rendering system in place, they can spend all the time on standards and what not until they ship. I think that’s what makes IE9 so interesting.

I wouldn’t worry about it, them noob idiots at MS fuck up all the time. This will be no different, GPU acceleration will be used to hide the sloppy flaws and poor sub standards support, while highlighting to idiots that its faster in a few circumstances, but it won’t really be overall nor will it really matter when you take away all that it can’t do properly. What will still remain is a pile of shit engine with a standards deficiency(thus still dividing web developers time), it will still use a pile of shit looking GUI (as standard with all noob crap coming out of MS since visteergh), it will still have a serious lack of decent enhanced usability and power extensions with a lack of developer interest, combined with piss poor user customization and shit privacy and security control given to the user. It will be still be broken, if not more so while you wait for the next blue moon update to fix all the sloppy shit.. Most have realized this is the MS game, and most are waking up to this cheap shit trick.

And what most people aren’t realizing is that just how shit this GPU acceleration could be compared to already well established GDI support(I’m not saying things don’t need to move onto the GPU they do, but not the MS way), I always have multiple tabs often 60+ , you only have to look at the dumb shit architecture d way MS built in the multiple iexplorer.exe processes for each new tab and the delays and retardedness of that approach, doesn’t even compare to the better Google chrome approach, although Chrome is very much shit compared Firefox. But GPU accererated browsing will be aimed at the noob, much how IE7/8 was designed and aimed at the noob who barely knows what a TAB is, let alone has more than 3 of them open at once.

Just look at these, to see how the wonderful MS shity areo GPU desktop approach turns out in real world performance…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFgYylqP_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM

utter shit all round, including that crap Explorer shell. MS are slowly dying, and tbh I couldn’t give a shit, they’ve done this to themselves starting with that Vista fuck up, and they’ve continued along the same path. Delivering shit for noobs, soon that is all they’ll have left while everyone else goes to improve other platforms. XP is there last decent OS, everything else has been fuck up. Noobs alone won’t keep you afloat MS, although you’ve definitely amassed a lot of themtards.

btw what is the uptake of Silverlight, I always thought I might try it out by v3, but MS are hopeless, Flash still reigns king on the web. Just saying.

“Long,
Are You planning on something like “IE9 Taskforce” maybe?”

What is the point, them retards at MS barely understand most requests.. Just laugh at Larry http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/2776 – such stupidity at MS. And what a pile of shit Explorer shell.

I don’t see this one feature making IE9 the break-out hit of the year or anything.

Now whether Firefox actually makes use of OpenGL using the full power of a GPU is another matter, it probably doesn’t but if Microsoft can get Direct2D GPU support and big performance gains all the better.