Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Jun 2009 21:37 UTC
De wonderen zijn de wereld nog niet uit. As we all know, Flash is a terrible resource hog on just about any device. Even my quad-core desktop space age computer sees spikes in processor usage whenever Flash rears it ugly head, let alone my poor Intel Atom-based devices. Well, it seems Adobe finally pulled its head out of its behind, and has committed itself to enabling proper Flash performance on Atom-base devices. The catch? You need a Broadcom Media Accelerator, or an NVIDIA graphics chip.
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The solution is not to substitute one horrible plugin for another but to get rid of plugins altogether.
Maybe once the HTML 5 spec is finished by the middle of the next decade and actually implemented by most browsers sometime around 2020, and implemented by IE sometime around 2030 we can burn both Flash and Silverlight and be rid of this nonsense once and for all.
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The solution is not to substitute one horrible plugin for another but to get rid of plugins altogether.
That would be an acceptable situation - use "Flash" in the same way ordinary pictural / image files are used in a web browser. Just imagine you would have to install a plugin for JPG graphics that "accidentally" isn't available for your platform or browser... Of course, tha ability to TURN IT OFF is a "must have", as it is already possible with graphics, for example in Opera where you can switch off graphics and CSS.
The problem I see is that "Flash" seems to hook so deeply into the system that it can't easily be implemented in all (!) browsers. Otherwise Linux and UNIX browsers would already include "Flash" for years by default. But such a solution would require that "Flash" is made an open standard (or a standard at least, which it isn't).
Maybe once the HTML 5 spec is finished by the middle of the next decade and actually implemented by most browsers sometime around 2020, and implemented by IE sometime around 2030 we can burn both Flash and Silverlight and be rid of this nonsense once and for all.
WE'll see. But in fact, I think there will soon be other "modern technologies" that get their way around HTML 5 and do something similarly stupid. Furthermore, I think MICROS~1 will have much responsibility for this development... :-)
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2005-07-06
I normally don't wish something bad upon someone/something, but I hope Silverlight kicks ass and grabs a majority of marketshare, thereby forcing Adobe to make drastic performance improvements to Flash.