Hi, ext Neil MacLeod wrote: > Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com wrote: >> Not sure about that "easily" in your post, I bet people are actually >> sweating over every fraction of FPS improvement ;) >> >> --jakub > > I hope so. Today I tried to read an article on www.theregister.co.uk and > this site is unfortunately floating a Flash-based advert over the top of > each article. When I went to read one article the N800 browser hung > while it tried to display the Flash advert, and after 20 minutes it > still hadn't finished displaying the advert. A further 5 minutes of > "back" button pressing later succeeded in extricating myself from the > page and disabling the Flash plug-in entirely. About 30 minutes later > the device shut down because the battery was low!! > > It's not just video where the Flash player is woeful, it's even standard > Flash adverts. I wish sites would not use them but they do, the only > option is to leave Flash disabled - it may as well not have been shipped > with the N800. Good Flash programs "should not" be a problem, but basically Flash is a programming language and with any language it's easy for idiots to make programs (adverts) which take all the CPU and (try to) gob hundreds of MBs of RAM. Personally, I just avoid sites which consistently include Flash done by idiots. Maybe you could complain to the sites hosting them that they tried to do a "denial-of-service" attack against your machine? :-))) > The Flash player provided with OS 2006 is actually better than the Flash > player provided with OS 2007 as the former will not play certain CPU > intensive content whereas the latter will play such content and > consequently sucks up 100% CPU and hangs the device. I know which I prefer! - Eero PS. It would be nice to have something like "noscript" for Flash where I could enable Flash only for sites on which I really want to see the Flash content. As JS & Flash are both powerful programming languages that run random programs fetched from the network in the (Browser) sandbox on your machine, I consider them pretty big (potential) security holes...
