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Possibly. But I know that you don't need a time machine to confirm whether or not advertisers will abuse HTML5+JS. You know they will. With tongue in cheek, th
by tomlin 16y ago
Possibly. But I know that you don't need a time machine to confirm whether or not advertisers will abuse HTML5+JS. You know they will.
With tongue in cheek, there is no advertisement="true" attribute on the canvas tag. If you were to block CANVAS or VIDEO you'd essentially be halting HTML5 progression. This concern, albeit not backed up with conjecture or reference, is that the use of CANVAS could actually cause some detriment to the HTML5 cause. Why shouldn't we anticipate this probability? Easy: we'll invariably end up with an answer we don't like and understand that an unfavorable result is to come.
The more "Flash is the cause of..." narratives I read, the more obvious it becomes. This fight isn't about standards at all. Flash-driven restaurant sites didn't suddenly become awful. They always were. And Adobe didn't make those sites. Shoddy developers did. iTunes for Windows runs like a fat kid; no one is banging down Microsoft's door about it.
When:
* Adobe Photoshop crashes, blame Adobe.
* iTunes runs like shit, blame Apple.
* a Flash-based site crashes your browser, blame the developer who built it.
- sudont 16y agoNo. Flash itself is poorly coded for the mac. Grooveshark is currently in the background, not playing anything. On my work PC, running XP, it doesn't use any cpu at all. On my personal mac, it constantly hovers at 45% core usage, meaning if I open grooveshark at home, my fans kick on in a 60 degree room.
- ubernostrum 16y agoIf you were to block CANVAS or VIDEO you'd essentially be halting HTML5 progression. With access to a decent selector engine, it's actually not that hard to selectively disable only the things which are (likely to be) ads. I've been doing that for years with nothing but CSS -- the fact that ads come in standardized formats actually makes it easier to put together selectors for them.