23rd September 2010, 12:24 PM
It's a visual clone, but that's not the feature every single person in the industry was excited about. It's the hardware acceleration. I still can't believe it's taken so long for browser makers to start making use of it. Firefox and Chrome are both going to be implementing it in their browsers, though in more limited forms at first, which tells me that this development really lit a fire under them.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)