Opera Mobile 12: Boosted HTML5 Performance on Android

Here at HTML5GameDevelopment.org, anything that sounds like it’s going to make HTML5 faster makes us happy, so when a story and video posted today at phandroid.com showed off WebGL running at a nice smooth framerate (granted it’s on a pretty powerful tablet device) we go pretty excited.

Check out the video below showing a WebGL demo with 37,000 polys along with a score of 354+11 on HTML 5 benchmark site html5test.com (allegedly best out there) and ahead of even Opera desktop.

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