Both the new JavaScript engine and the new graphics ... API that uses hardware Direct3D acceleration to accelerate 2D graphics, available in Windows 7 and as a patch for Windows Vista.

The new JavaScript engine also is due to get a new ... Project Azure, as it is known, focuses on the creation of a new 2D graphics API for Firefox that's "significantly closer to Direct2D" as ...

The announcement described three main areas of improvement: JavaScript, Web standards ... is a new Windows API that uses hardware Direct3D acceleration to accelerate 2D graphics, available in Windows ...