If you can't watch the video: IE9 is some orders of magnitude faster than HTML5 when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering.
In some other initial benchmarks, IE9 is about 30% slower than Chrome 6 in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark -- and about 10% faster than Firefox 3.7.
I also tested FishIE with Opera and Firefox -- and believe it or not, Opera's a lot faster than both Chrome and Firefox!
HTML5 performance: IE9 vs Chrome 6
Posted on Thursday, June 24 2010 @ 20:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Download Squad compares the HTML5 performance of IE9 Preview 3 with Google Chrome 6: