On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
My Macbook Pro just piped up and started complaining about the
temperature. Both cores running at 80%, for I don't know how long.
So I go to see who's responsible. Safari. Why? Well, because I
don't have a Flashblock for Safari (need to look for that again).
Hidden away in the tabs was one that had a flash applet in the
corner of the screen rendering a few characters of the page title
scrolling by in a cool looking "flipped corner", reflected at a
funky angle so it actually had to rotate and antialias every
letter. If that tab wasn't the active tab it apparently went into
overdrive or something.
I've seen similar things with DHTML, AJAX, Java, every kind of
"active content" there is.
Jesus Christ, people, what's wrong with you?
It's not just hateful; it's evil. And your Web browser[1] is broken
(and hateful) for letting people do evil things to your computer,
when it's supposed to defend against them (which is called 'security').
Josh
[1] Generally speaking -- not just Safari.
