Hardware accelerated HTML5 Web browser comparison (Opera, IE9, Firefox 4 and Chrome)

Opera now has hardware acceleration! We pit it against other Web browsers, including Firefox 4, IE9 and Chrome 10, all of which also have hardware acceleration. Opera does surprisingly well… More at: downloadsquad.switched.com If you want to try the FishIE test yourself: ie.microsoft.com (There’s some odd flickering in the second half of the video. Fraps is throwing in a few frames from my second display, for some reason. We hope it doesn’t cause any seizures.)

Google I/O 2011: HTML5 Showcase for Web Developers: The Wow and the How

Eric Bidelman, Arne Roomann-Kurrik We’ll share the strengths and extents of HTML5, showing magnificent demos of bleeding-edge features in Google Chrome. Digging into high-fidelity graphics, performance, and system integration, we’ll break each demo down on the big screen to show how it was constructed. Then we’ll show you how to use Chrome to its full potential in your own projects.