[geeks] iPad - NOT a 'Miss' for me I'm afraid

[Phil Stracchino]

On 02/04/10 11:29, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:44:31AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> On 02/04/10 07:26, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> On 02/04/10 04:16, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>>>> Amen to that. Many broken flash players will remain on many sites for
>>>> a long time to come, but youtube's html5 move is a step in the right
>>>> direction:
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/html5
>>>
>>> YAY Youtube!
>>
>> Meanwhile, a HUGE raspberry to Flickr for all-too-frequently using Flash
>> to display STATIC IMAGES.  :p
> 
> Isn't that only used in the slide-show view?  I was about to say that it
> is long past time for them to replace their slide show program with
> plain HTML, but then it occured to me that they might still be trying to
> make IE6 users happy.  Ick.

That may be the case.  The effect's the same; if someone passes me a
Flickr link, and all that comes up when I load it is a placeholder
asking me to allow a full-page Flash object, I close the tab and write
it off.  Likewise, I won't go to some photo-hosting sites at all -
smugmug is a particularly bad offender; holy CRAP, did they have a
contest to see how much Javascript they could jam into one page?
Viewing a photo, or even photo gallery, online in a web browser should
not drive a multi-GHz CPU into 100% utilization.


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