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IE is moving its renderer from GDI to DirectX, which can utilize GPU acceleration. This is an awesome improvement that smooths all animation and scrolling and offers better text rendering. Its script engine is also getting a massive overhaul, and by the performance improvements shown, I wouldn't doubt that they're going down the same path as SpiderMonkey, V8, and SquirrelFish.

Opera is also pursuing a similar path with the Vega rendering engine and the Carakan Javascript engine. If IE improves this much, then I can't help but be optimistic about Opera.

[An Early Look At IE9 for Developers]

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Chrome gets native ruby annotation support

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:18:01 AM

Chrome

New versions of Chrome in dev channel (4.0.245.0+) and webkit nightlies now have basic support for ruby annotation. No text spacing yet, and they only support the HTML 5 edition of ruby annotation (so complex ruby annotation support as in the XHTML 1.1 ruby module is unlikely), but they now have a native solution.

This also means that Safari and other webkit-based browsers will be getting ruby annotation support in the not-so-distant future. It's your turn, Opera. I hope you consider implementing it for Opera 11.

[Implementation progress on the HTML5 <ruby> element] via [mycom journal]

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