Java applets are starting to not look so bad. Java has been able to do cross-platform hardware acceleration like this for ages. Running this kind of thing on the Java vm is a way less convoluted and more versatile way of implementing rich web applications than... lets see... using javascript to manipulate DOM elements from SVG and expecting browsers to magically hardware accelarate it, hacking some limited declarative animation system into CSS3, proprietary plugins, holy buckets what a mess, and people wonder why browsers are "slow" (except they aren't unless people try doing stupid things with them). HTML5 is all hyped up because people see a few shiny features and canvas demos and jump on the bandwagon.
This Moonlight acceleration is pretty cool I suppose at least to allow accessibility to pages which unfortunately depend upon it.
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From what I've seen of MS and Adobe's products, I think MS owning Adobe would actually be an *improvement*. I'll take Silverlight over flash any day.
Java has been dying for a long time, I don't think its coming back in a big way at this point.
The future is in HTML5! You gotta thank Apple and Google for that one, everything has to run on the iPad, iPhone, and Android mobile devices now.Leave a comment:
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fucking Icaza got him. poor bastard.
and, yeh, future of web doesn't seem bright with all those corporate vendor locking and monopolization, buying off big companies by bigger assholes. there is some rumors that MS wants to buy Adobe with their flash and graphic software. oh, how fucked will we be then.Leave a comment:
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MS sock puppet go away!
We want Java not .NET! Oh wait, Java is now in the possession of the 'Oracle'...
Man! What am I gonna use?!Leave a comment:
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Moonlight Now Does GPU Acceleration
Phoronix: Moonlight Now Does GPU Acceleration
In the off-hours of XDS Toulouse a few of us were wondering what David Reveman has been working on lately for Novell. David was the creator of the now-defunct XGL and has worked on Compiz, Glitz, and other Linux graphics projects, but lately his work really hasn't been publicized (nor has he been present at XDS, X@FOSDEM, etc) and even other SuSE/Novell employees have been unsure what his day-to-day activities are for Novell. It turns out at least one of his recent projects has been bringing GPU acceleration to Moonlight...
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