| The whole "behind the scenes" reads like an advertisement. Striking excerpts: * > cuttherope._ie_ > Canvas is an amazingly fast rendering surface, especially in a browser where that API is hardware accelerated (like Internet Explorer 9). > Internet Explorer 9’s Chakra JavaScript engine pre-compiles the code on a background thread [...] The result is near-native execution speeds. Amazingly, this is something that you just get for free. > while we can say Internet Explorer 9 users get a great plug-in free experience, Chrome and some Firefox users could have run into an audio problem > Much of our development was done in Visual Web Developer 2010 (the "express" version is available for free here). This is a really robust web editor with autocompletion for JavaScript and CSS. It’s great that the express version is free. > in most cases, anything we tested in Internet Explorer 9 “just worked” everywhere else. > With some guidance from Microsoft, we decided to replace the recursive function with an “unpacked” iterative version of the same code. > Frankly, we would have never found that without the profiling tools in Internet Explorer 9. * The whole performance part is worded to sound like porting from Obj-C to JS is a breeze, JS code is actually cleaner and more straightforward than Obj-C, Canvas offers more features and performs better than OpenGL ES, and so on. This is not so much an ad for IE9 as an ad targeting developers, showcasing the (present and future) Microsoft development ecosystem as best class. |