On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Dirk Pranke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 1 May 2010, [email protected] 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? > > > > 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. > That's a decision for either a user or a user agent, not an author. It should not be toggleable from HTML. - James > > -- Dirk >
