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Apple iPad launch
Stsin:
Aah, that explains it. Well, hopefully everyone will convert to HTML5 eventually.
lapa321:
--- Quote from: Stsin on April 18, 2010, 02:35:50 AM ---Aah, that explains it. Well, hopefully everyone will convert to HTML5 eventually.
--- End quote ---
I'm not quite sure about that. Can you tell me what an HTML 5 IDE looks like? Is it still text based? How easy is it to develop for?
Regarding the apparent CPU usage, while it's true that it does use more processing cycles, what's being neglected to mention is that any basic PC today (even a netbook) is enough to run a heavy flash based site. So unless you're using a 10 year old PC, it shouldn't be an issue. Any high power app will consume high CPU. Simple html, java or flash site will consume minimal resources, complex ones use high resources. Flash will not have your processor running at 100% just to display a banner.
Regarding stability and efficiency. One curious thing is that a friend of mine got a mac and he's trying to code flash on it. It kept crashing and had a ton of incompatibilities which doesn't happen on the PC. When i looked into it, apparently Apple wouldn't release the API's so Adobe has actually been working blind. The PC versions are now using less resources and hardware acceleration, the mac is still doing everything in software.
And apples comment on security issues is kinda hypocritical, considering the innumerable ways they've been hacked through the safari, quicktime and jailbreak.
Stsin:
Well, never really looked into it, other than checking out videobay.
But the reasons for it, is already described by you. Removing proprietary apps for normal browsing. Sure, the recent flash may use less resources using hardware acceleration in latest releases, but also brought some instability with it. Not sure why you brought up banners not taking up much resources, when we were discussing about YouTube. Well, flash does take up a lot of resources, especially having multiple pages open. If you use tabs, you'll likely have multiple pages open at once...and that may kill that netbook.
I'm for open source, even if it initially isn't as good. Knowing that will change down the road with more aids and tools than before. It's just not two OSes that we should worry about.
ilk3000:
It's up to the browsers and the users, not the developers. I'd love to see more HTML5 and CSS3 implemented, but until the browsers support it and people (and companies) stop using IE6, there's no point in developing for it.
lapa321:
IE's CPU usage with three fully animated flash banners. (Intel atom 270)
IE's CPU usage with the flash banners covered.
Flash by design doesn't draw anything unless it has to, try covering half a banner, and the cpu usage drops 50%. Scroll down a bit until the banners get pushed off screen, and it drops to 0. Heck, even if you're showing the entire banner, if the only animation is a tiny part of it, it'll only use enough CPU to draw that part. Killing the netbook with flash is rather unlikely.
PS: The instability you claimed i described is because of adobe not being given access to Apple's API's. You can't honestly say something is crap on your system if you're not letting them properly program for it in the first place.
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