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How many browsers out there support Canvas? And how is this compared to Flash - performance wise?

• ggrot 17y ago
  Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera. IE, but only with a special canvas plugin - not quite as fast. Comparing performance is always difficult, and specific to a particular application.
  • jrockway 17y ago
    FWIW, Firefox + X11 uses about 80% of two CPUs to render the demos. (I assume it is trying to use as much CPU as possible to keep the framerate up, but it is only one thread. X is using the second CPU.) I have not had Flash installed for many years, but I never remember it using much CPU to produce smooth animations. I think this is a problem, as nobody wants their browser using much CPU. (Using the CPU isn't a problem unless you are running on battery power. The problem is that the framerate will become unacceptable when offlineimap or whatever kicks in in the background.)
    • est 17y ago
      XUL + X11 is so lame.