In recent months, the company Apple, Google and Mozilla browsers are shown with a really impressive performance, which allows more and more to accelerate the mapping web pages and web applications. Noticeably slower Microsoft Internet Explorer with each release is a little faster, but can not catch up with competitors. Speed characteristics of Internet Explorer 8 lag behind those of other modern browsers, but Microsoft has a secret weapon, and she is not afraid to use it in the next browser.

Senior project manager for Internet Explorer Dean said that Internet Explorer 9 will be used for processing Direct2D pages on the GPU. Quote: "We are changing the IE for a family of DirectX from the Windows API, to provide more opportunities to Web developers. The starting point is to move all the graphics and text rendering of the central processor on a graphics card with Direct2D and DirectWrite. Graphics hardware acceleration means that luxury, graphically complex sites can be downloaded quickly, using less CPU ... Now, and Web developers can take advantage of advances in graphics hardware, while continuing to create sites that are compatible with the same standards to which they are accustomed."

Hardware acceleration of graphics web pages, apparently, will help with small details, such as font rendering for the given parameters and rendering of sub-pixels, and graphically complex web applications, such as maps. This will allow the future of the browser IE9 without delay to reproduce, interactive maps, websites, based on flash, etc.