“Opera’s rendering was so fast the other browsers had to use hardware acceleration to catch up.” – Sure it’s software rendering is fast, even slightly faster than that of Chrome. However rendering GPU accelerated layers using a GPU is orders of magnitude faster than of using a CPU. So frankly even a highly optimized software rendering engine is far from being a substitute for hardware acceleration – at least for me it isn’t. And many websites have and have had gpu accelerated layers for quite some time now. I’ll repeat myself once again, they’ve been on it for a very very long time now and the results that we have seen from this: http://labs.opera.com/news/2011/02/28/ weren’t that amazing.
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