flash: thanks, but no thanks
many people are complaining about the memory footprint of all the well known browsers (including chrome). and of course they are right. i think that the situation would be far more bearable if we could ban flash from the web!
i have seen some great sites that depend their design on flash technology, but let’s face it. adobe plugin sucks big time. i just installed a flash block add-on to my browser (again) and i’m not going to remove it until adobe decides to release a descent flash player plugin for all the browsers that will not need 100% cpu utilization every time i open a flash site on a tab.
depending on the browser you use, you can find an add-on with the same functionality to flashblock firefox add-on. after a quick search i found this for opera and this for safari. i don’t care about internet explorer since it can’t even pass the acid2 test, so you shouldn’t use it anyway.
ps. i think that it’s time for browser developers to consider the option of full svg support, as w3c suggests. maybe that would be a new “reclaim the web” action.
