Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests
by Veedrac on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:10PM
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Having seen the realtime-rendered Horizon Forbidden West trailer, justifying Chrome's ‘smooth’ animations this way is like stepping into a parallel world.
I can't even scroll Twitter without stutter on my hefty gaming laptop, my browser (the whole thing! not just the tab!) often freezes for 10+ seconds when first rendering a page, and toggling Reddit's sidebar takes half a second.
To the extent Chrome's anything can be deemed ‘smooth’, it's because computers are fast, not because they made some clever space-time trade-off.
Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests
by fouric on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:52PM
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Twitter and Reddit are both known to be poorly-engineered and ridiculously heavy applications. They're very slow on Firefox, too, and probably any browser you care to use.
I can't even scroll Twitter without stutter on my hefty gaming laptop, my browser (the whole thing! not just the tab!) often freezes for 10+ seconds when first rendering a page, and toggling Reddit's sidebar takes half a second.
To the extent Chrome's anything can be deemed ‘smooth’, it's because computers are fast, not because they made some clever space-time trade-off.