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.
Incidentally, it appears that Google News has stopped auto-updating.
This wasn't using a lot of CPU time, but it did have the irritation
that it trashed any embedded video you might have been watching. I'm
glad to see it go.
Google Web apps have a solid record of actually becoming *more
usable* over time.
Josh
