Hey Scott, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Scott Balneaves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:57:31PM -0800, john wrote:
> Well, I think firefox will too. Here's a test: get your 24 students to JUST > browse around on a site that doesn't involve any Java, or flash. Something > like wikipedia. I *know*, that they'll be able to do it just fine. Because > wikipedia pages load, and then they just sit there. Sure, you scroll around, > but all the processing's mainly done: now you're just scrolling around in a > page. > > This is exactly the same as openoffice. Once it's loaded, it's loaded. You > scroll around in the doc, but you're not doing anything computationally > intense. Sure, This makes such sense I don't know why I couldn't figure that out for my self :-( . Thanks for pointing this out. > > Problem is *entirely* flash. Because it just sits there and keeps chewing up > cycles. Web animations. Ads. Videos. If there's 4 or five flash apps on a > page (say, 3 flash ads, 1 menu application, and a video), each consuming a > significant % of the cpu's cycles, *one page from one browser* can peg a > machine. Now multiply this by the other 23 terminals. > > We've surrendered our web viewing experience to a propriatary app that's > inefficient. And now we're paying for it. > > Scott That's a pretty damning indictment. So is supporting gnash someway the direction forward in your opinion? Or some other approach? Thanks, John -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
