Flash banned from VA flights; iPhones welcome

[JoeM]

God, what are all those photographers with those annoying Flash portfolio slideshow sites and chic restaurants sites gonna do?

[Seacrest]

JoeM wrote:
God, what are all those photographers with those annoying Flash portfolio slideshow sites and chic restaurants sites gonna do?

Stop annoying us with superfluous animation and their poor taste in "tasteful" background audio?

[Article Accelerator]

I love it--loads instantly, uses almost no CPU cycles, and it's flash-y!

[M A V I C]

Once content creators start using HTML5 to replace Flash animations, the problem with CPU hogging and load times will be even worse than they are now.

[kj4btkljv]

M A V I C wrote:
Once content creators start using HTML5 to replace Flash animations, the problem with CPU hogging and load times will be even worse than they are now.

Please explain.

Jeff

[M A V I C]

kj4btkljv wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
Once content creators start using HTML5 to replace Flash animations, the problem with CPU hogging and load times will be even worse than they are now.

Please explain.

Jeff
HTML5 can only compete with the video portion of Flash. For animations - especially basic ones - using HTML5 will result in much more bandwidth & CPU usage.

[Harbourmaster]

This is just some grandstanding and pandering to The Leader...

A simple htaccess script can (and should) redirect any "smart phone" traffic to a dedicated .mobi le website that is tailored to mobile users...

[M A V I C]

Harbourmaster wrote:
This is just some grandstanding and pandering to The Leader...

A simple htaccess script can (and should) redirect any "smart phone" traffic to a dedicated .mobi le website that is tailored to mobile users...

And any well implemented Flash piece is inserted with JavaScript that will easily replace the Flash object with a static one.

[guitarist]

Harbourmaster wrote:
This is just some grandstanding and pandering to The Leader...

A simple htaccess script can (and should) redirect any "smart phone" traffic to a dedicated .mobi le website that is tailored to mobile users...

Yeah, that made sense when smartphones were only capable of viewing a "mobile web" baby-fied version of the internet. Since the introduction of the iPhone, and other more dynamic, computer-like smart phones, viewing content that's been specially tailored into cute little "mobi" pages is less acceptable to users who have come to expect more. Many are already used to viewing the same world wide web on their iPhones as they do on their laptops.

It's unfortunate that current generation of super-powerful laptop and desktop computers can be brought to their KNEES simply by viewing a few web pages. There's no excuse for a web page to hog 85% of an insanely powerful CPU's resources. Smaller computing devices only highlight what is already an annoying and unnecessary problem, bad web design, and increasing over-dependence on resource-hogging graphic baloney. I hope it gets fixed.