On: 3D on 2D HTML Canvas

[jacquesm]

slow as molasses but impressive all the same.

[bryn → jacquesm]

It BLAZES on Safari.

[ahpeeyem → bryn]

Hey you're right, I can't notice a difference in speed/responsiveness between Safari on OS X and Chrome on XP inside Parallels, whereas it's painfully slow on Firefox both on OS X and XP+Parallels.

Does this mean Firefox is slow because of its Canvas implementation, and not the Javascript?

[jdavid → ahpeeyem]

Firefox has not enabled by default "tracemonkey" yet. If you get one of the beta or nightly builds it should be turned on.

[ahpeeyem → jdavid]

But Safari doesn't have its own new, fast JS interpreter (Squirrelfish) yet either - I'm only using v3.2.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)#Mac)

[jacquesm → bryn]

Interesting! Unfortunately I've borrowed my mac to someone so I can't see that right now...