[whatwg] suggestion for HTML5 spec

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Aug 2 18:56:44 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Dirk Pranke wrote:
> >
> > Why would a user ever want anyone to disable their GPU acceleration?
> 
> I believe I've heard people say that they might sometimes want this for 
> power management, i.e. performing the same computation on the GPU might 
> take more power than performing it more slowly on the CPU. I imagine 
> this would depend on the specific configuration and computations 
> involved, though.

This seems like a matter for the user, not the Web page, though.

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