Programmer adds IE 9 graphics acceleration to Firefox

Courtesy Engadget  Wed, 11/25/2009 - 16:01

Not so fast, Internet Explorer!

We know that you have great things in the works for IE 9 -- including Direct2D GPU acceleration, the 2D / vector graphics API that we first laid eyes on in Windows 7.

And believe us, that got our attention -- as well as the attention of Mozilla programmer Bas Schouten. It seems that over the weekend, the young man successfully loaded Direct2D support into an alpha build of Firefox 3.7 --...


 

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