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Microsoft shows off HTML5 with a snow flurry
JUST DAYS after the world went 'oooooh' over a Google easter egg that brings a flurry of snow to web pages Microsoft has launched its own "Let it snow" page, however it uses this one to show off HTML5.
As well as showing off web video software, the web page can also be used to display the touch capabilities in Windows 8, though we suspect this could have less immediate appeal.
Anyone else, and anyone with a decent computer, can enjoy the experience of watching show fall on their computer screen, at varying degrees of flurry.
"In the spirit of the holiday season, we offer a new HTML5 experience that makes the most of your PC hardware and the new touch capabilities in Windows 8. Check out Let It Snow and get ready for a GPU-powered snow storm," said Rob Mauceri, group program manager for Internet Explorer in a blog post.
"This experience brings together hardware-accelerated HTML5 canvas, SVG, CSS, and more."
The page does look quite nice, it's snowing and someone has made a snowman - what more do you want? - and depending on what web browser and hardware you are using the display looks rather good.
The Microsoft web page comes less that 48 hours after people went googoo over Google's "Let it snow" easter egg, which works if you type that term into its search box. µ
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Good ol' "Amiga Inc." had this idea eight years ago or so:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031224092758/http://www.amiga.com/
...with the likes of SOPA on the horizon, is the entire tech industry invoking the curse?
@Doug You are a retarded anti MS troll. Right now IE have the best GPU browser integration and anyway how in hell you think they copy that in less than 48 hours you moron..
The animation is smooth at 4000 flakes on IE9, and plain unusable on Firefox 8 and Chrome. However, the demo runs terribly on IE9 in software mode, so I expect the performance is GPU bound.
@ mike - on ie9 set at 2000, getting 60fps with only 50% of one core on a PhII x6 utilised. I've never seen performance like that on flash. Maybe your chrome isn't using your gpu for some reason? IE9 has always had the best gpu integration anyway.
@ Doug - I think it wouldve taken more than 48 hours to develop and get this page up and running. Nontheless I have seen several features pop up in google search that were first implemented in bing so give and take (mouse over zoom on image search is the first that comes to mind).
@doug
what was the last original idea that Google or Apple came up with in the last few years.. all they did was did things better than the rest of the market..
Running the demo in Chrome (doesn't run in IE8) uses a full CPU core just to show some jerky snowflakes.
So the problem isn't IE, its HTML5.
The Anti Flash brigade (Flascists?) may have some valid points but the whole CPU hog argument is starting to fall down when we see demos like this.
I don't think Microsoft can be blamed for everything, this isn't the first HTML5 demo I've seen that battered the CPU
Good job on the fake pushing of their propriety crap on that site, but it won't work MS, you can take your IE and keep it nice and snug.. somewhere.
Microsoft copies someone else, as usual. Aside from Kinect, have they had an original idea in the past decade?