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0 pointsTazeTSchnitzel13y ago0 comments

>and therefore shortening the battery life of iOS devices

Does rendering a few more polygons actually kill battery life that badly? I believe much of the OS is already hardware accelerated anyway.

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olsn13y ago· 2 in thread

GPU usage does cost battery life, I cannot say how much - but on the other hand I cannot think of any other reason why they wouldn't use hardware acceleration on websites automatically (or allway)

TazeTSchnitzelOP13y ago

I'm mainly wondering why developers need to hint hardware acceleration. Surely Safari can figure out when it is needed.

mddw13y ago

What I can't figure is why 2D transitions needs to be hardware accelerated to be smooth in mobile Safari.

Neither why their mighty Nitro JavaScript Engine can't handle smoothly a setTimeOut based fade in/Out.

Google Chrome on 8 years old hardware (less powerful than actual iPhone hardware) renders the moving web better.

Safari is a poor mobile browser.

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