[whatwg] suggestion for HTML5 spec

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Sat May 1 20:55:16 PDT 2010


On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:25 PM,  <ryan14 at mail.com> wrote:
> My suggestion for the HTML5 spec is that the video tag should have a feature
> that can enable GPU acceleration on a user's graphics card, so it will take
> some stress off the CPU.
>
> Do you like my suggestion?

Nothing is stopping browsers from using the GPU to help speed up
<video> playback right now, and in fact I think that some browsers are
either already doing so, or are planning to do so in the relatively
near future.

~TJ



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