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Re:3D on 2D HTML Canvas by bryn on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @09:39AM (#485780)
It BLAZES on Safari.
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Re:3D on 2D HTML Canvas by ahpeeyem on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @12:29PM (#485977)
Hey you're right, I can't notice a difference in speed/responsiveness between Safari on OS X and Chrome on XP inside Parallels, whereas it's painfully slow on Firefox both on OS X and XP+Parallels.

Does this mean Firefox is slow because of its Canvas implementation, and not the Javascript?

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Re:3D on 2D HTML Canvas by jdavid on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @05:53PM (#486365)
Firefox has not enabled by default "tracemonkey" yet. If you get one of the beta or nightly builds it should be turned on.
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Re:3D on 2D HTML Canvas by ahpeeyem on Thursday February 19, 2009 @08:17AM (#487219)
But Safari doesn't have its own new, fast JS interpreter (Squirrelfish) yet either - I'm only using v3.2.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)#Mac)
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Re:3D on 2D HTML Canvas by jacquesm on Thursday February 19, 2009 @06:55AM (#487152)
Interesting! Unfortunately I've borrowed my mac to someone so I can't see that right now...
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