[K12OSN] Flash and TC slowness

[Jeff Williams]

On Saturday 04 September 2010 10:00:04 k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:

> The Flash problems have been hashed time and time again here,I know.
> Did anyone else experience how slow TC's became with the very simple
> flash animation that Google Had on their homepage of the ( I think) atom
> thing that looked something like a hollow spinning globe on Saturday
> Sept. 4th?

Greetings,

I've seen over the past few months that Google has gotten quite a bit slower 
to load on every system.  The "bucky ball" on 9/4 rendered my ancient Toshiba 
laptop unusable.  I don't think it was Flash, however.  My Toshiba doesn't 
have a flash player installed.  This may have been rendered using Javascript.  
Frankly, I gave up on trying to decipher the source code for the Google home 
page.

The lack of consideration for lower speed devices by web designers is very 
frustrating.  It is not simply thin clients that get hosed, it is every 
sub-1ghz processor that is hammered.  Where, oh where, are the W3C compliant  
web sites?
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jeff williams - cfiaime at cfiaime.com