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and the award for the biggest linkbait title goes to ... I was pleasantly surprised when I seen my HTC Desire running flash, but then after a few weeks it just

and the award for the biggest linkbait title goes to ... I was pleasantly surprised when I seen my HTC Desire running flash, but then after a few weeks it just got annoying and I turned it off, battery performance went up, and I have not once had an inclination to turn it back on.

acqq 16y ago
It's easy to understand where the annoyance comes from. There's a big difference between comparing a "good written" flash thing which you make yourself and having the flash enabled while browsing the web. With first you can demonstrate Flash's superiority, with the second you're picking up all the incompetent code written by anybody and almost 100% of it is used only to make something totally unimportant just moving to get an attention from you. When we consider Flash as the content delivery mechanism and not the movement based attention taker we're left only with videos and games on the web. But both should be optimized for mobile. For video, transcoding is needed. For games, better writing them native.
- elblanco 16y ago
  Just wait till all those incompetently written advertisements, video players, etc. are all written using HTML 5 standards. Pretty soon we'll all have an extension in our browsers called "Canvas block".
  - acqq 16y ago
    Would blocking canvas be even enough? Or would we need "HTML5 block" to avoid constant annoyance? And what's going to happen on all these devices where we can't install extensions? That's why I intend to use Opera Mini as long as it works.
ZeroGravitas 16y ago
Why didn't you set it to on demand in the first place? Having it on full time, then having it off full time seems a bit extreme in both directions.
- ergo98 16y ago
  I second this. In fact I always find comments along the lines of "I tried Flash but then uninstalled it" curiously suspicious: It is very common knowledge that it should be set to ondemand, as otherwise you will drown under a sea of hundreds of heavily animated advertisements. I have it on ondemand, and while I seldom enable it, when I do I appreciate that I have the option.
  - daleharvey 16y ago
    turn it off = on demand

acqq 16y ago

It's easy to understand where the annoyance comes from. There's a big difference between comparing a "good written" flash thing which you make yourself and having the flash enabled while browsing the web. With first you can demonstrate Flash's superiority, with the second you're picking up all the incompetent code written by anybody and almost 100% of it is used only to make something totally unimportant just moving to get an attention from you. When we consider Flash as the content delivery mechanism and not the movement based attention taker we're left only with videos and games on the web. But both should be optimized for mobile. For video, transcoding is needed. For games, better writing them native.

elblanco 16y ago
Just wait till all those incompetently written advertisements, video players, etc. are all written using HTML 5 standards. Pretty soon we'll all have an extension in our browsers called "Canvas block".
- acqq 16y ago
  Would blocking canvas be even enough? Or would we need "HTML5 block" to avoid constant annoyance? And what's going to happen on all these devices where we can't install extensions? That's why I intend to use Opera Mini as long as it works.

ZeroGravitas 16y ago

Why didn't you set it to on demand in the first place? Having it on full time, then having it off full time seems a bit extreme in both directions.

ergo98 16y ago
I second this. In fact I always find comments along the lines of "I tried Flash but then uninstalled it" curiously suspicious: It is very common knowledge that it should be set to ondemand, as otherwise you will drown under a sea of hundreds of heavily animated advertisements. I have it on ondemand, and while I seldom enable it, when I do I appreciate that I have the option.
- daleharvey 16y ago
  turn it off = on demand