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IE's compositing and rendering are far ahead of Chrome, honestly. Direct2D and DirectWrite are really really good at using the GPU to render content, and the D3D-based compositing is really good. Microsoft is very good at graphics (and it helps that they control the whole stack of course).

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If there's one thing I was really impressed with when trying out Windows 8 and whatever version of IE it came with, it's the hardware acceleration when scrolling. I've never seen such smooth scrolling before, ever.

The fact here is that IE is only available on Windows, whereas Chrome and Safari support all platforms. The common denominator for them is OpenGL. BTW, is OpenGL inherently inferior to DirectX?

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