This may have already been hashed out on this list, or in the
BugZilla tree of new feature requests, but has it been suggested to
have a "web feature" to only play Flash presentations ONCE (if there
is a way to tell when the plugin is finished, that is)? Or not at
all, until you tell them too?
I see this as quite similar to the option to only play animated
GIFs once - many ads are moving to flash animations, which 1) are
downright annoying once you see them once (or less than once in many
cases), and 2) take an enormous amount of processing power,
especially if there are several on the same page.. I'm on the
'MyCokeRewards" page, which uses one for it's main page "flag", and I
think one or two of the ads use them too.. It slows down absolutely
everything (well, having Mail download in the background, and
Spotlight indexing behind that doesn't help, but still), including
THE UI elements (<rant> why can't Apple put the Cocoa widget
graphical code in it's own thread that gets top priority above
EVERYTHING except for network and optical disk accesses that must
have data fed to them, and the highest-level interrupt code like
screen and device access?)
I wonder if we're seeing "Flash ads" as a "backlash" against
animated gifs (which people may turn off) - in which case it's a
worse than before, as Flash consumes more processor power than
animated gifs did, and maybe more bandwidth as well (depending on how
complex the animation is)
Jim
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