Is canvas element in html5 hardware accelerated?

Question

I'm pretty new to web development, in fact I'm thinking of diving into html and js for game developing.

So, before doing anything, I need to know whether or not the "canvas" element in html5 is hardware accelerated. If it's not, then I would need to use something like webgl? I don't know if it matters, but the browser I'm using is firefox(maybe it varies between browsers)

It might seem stupid, but it's an important question, specially since in games you have a bunch of 2d sprites being drawed all around. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Yes HTML5 Canvas is hardware accelerated but it require a Hardware Accelerated Browser. If you use chrome you can check this out by going to chrome://gpu/

Here is an example on how it looks:

A few articles on the same:

1. chromium.org
2. msdn.microsoft.com