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Wow, that background animation slowed my Firefox to a crawl. Works quite well on Chrome though. Fancy stuff. HTML5? Edit: Wow, actually a lot going on in this

Wow, that background animation slowed my Firefox to a crawl. Works quite well on Chrome though. Fancy stuff. HTML5? Edit: Wow, actually a lot going on in this guy's site. The little animated menus bottom left and right of the article. The filter searchable previous posts. The swivel-transition topic group-changes. The speed-controllable animation. Pretty neat, fanciest blog I've ever seen!

phase_9 14y ago
Shame I can no longer hear anything thanks to the roar of my laptop's fans! Text only link for TFA: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiamat.tsotech.com%2Fsurface-pro-tip http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiamat.tsotech.co...
- mikecane 14y ago
  Thank you for that. My god, how can anyone think that animation is necessary?
cabirum 14y ago
Fully loads 1 core of my i7. Who the fuck makes things like this.
- gala8y 14y ago
  Just wanted to post the same OT: i5 spinning at 3 GHz. No comment.
xentronium 14y ago
Bottom right corner has a submenu for background animation (confusingly says 'normal' by default).
Stratoscope 14y ago
Perhaps it's fitting that the website is tiamat.tsotech.com and the offending animation appears to be in a file called tiamat.js: "In Babylonian myths, Tiamat is a huge, bloated female dragon that personifies the saltwater ocean, the water of Chaos." Source: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tiamat.html http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tiamat.html
stesch 14y ago
I recommend NoScript.
- corporalagumbo 14y ago
  Eh, I find NoScript a bit extreme. Really makes you realise how common Flash elements are... Yeah, generally I have no problems with Flash, and I find having to enable everything or stare at gutted pages irritating. Plus, how do I know what an element is until I enable it - so how am I supposed to know which elements I want to enable? (If you have any tips I'm missing, feel free to fill me in.)
eknkc 14y ago
Safari on my MBP slowed down to grave. (Wonder how it fares on a surface pro with IE10)
sgt 14y ago
52520- Google Chrom 98.2 00:15.20 6/1 2 114 296 22M 74M 60M 107M 873M 799 799 running 501 30984 98.2%! Silly background animation. Looks cool, but clearly totally inefficient.
thenomad 14y ago
I'm actually very grateful that background was there and running - because it reminded me I'd turned my NoScript off yesterday to deal with a particularly recalcitrant payments site...
bane 14y ago
<sarcasm> I'm so glad html5 has saved us from the cpu eating plague of flash websites. </sarcasm>
bhauer 14y ago
You can turn the animation off using the menu at the bottom right. Having written a few blog entries about how much desktop PC technology has stalled out, I chuckle a bit that a modern PC struggles to do some two-dimensional SVG/SMIL animation. Thanks for the comments. If you like it, you may be among the minority. :)

phase_9 14y ago

Shame I can no longer hear anything thanks to the roar of my laptop's fans! Text only link for TFA: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiamat.tsotech.com%2Fsurface-pro-tip http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiamat.tsotech.co...

mikecane 14y ago
Thank you for that. My god, how can anyone think that animation is necessary?

cabirum 14y ago

Fully loads 1 core of my i7. Who the fuck makes things like this.

gala8y 14y ago
Just wanted to post the same OT: i5 spinning at 3 GHz. No comment.

xentronium 14y ago

Bottom right corner has a submenu for background animation (confusingly says 'normal' by default).

Stratoscope 14y ago

Perhaps it's fitting that the website is tiamat.tsotech.com and the offending animation appears to be in a file called tiamat.js: "In Babylonian myths, Tiamat is a huge, bloated female dragon that personifies the saltwater ocean, the water of Chaos." Source: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tiamat.html http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tiamat.html

stesch 14y ago

I recommend NoScript.

corporalagumbo 14y ago
Eh, I find NoScript a bit extreme. Really makes you realise how common Flash elements are... Yeah, generally I have no problems with Flash, and I find having to enable everything or stare at gutted pages irritating. Plus, how do I know what an element is until I enable it - so how am I supposed to know which elements I want to enable? (If you have any tips I'm missing, feel free to fill me in.)

eknkc 14y ago

Safari on my MBP slowed down to grave. (Wonder how it fares on a surface pro with IE10)

sgt 14y ago

52520- Google Chrom 98.2 00:15.20 6/1 2 114 296 22M 74M 60M 107M 873M 799 799 running 501 30984 98.2%! Silly background animation. Looks cool, but clearly totally inefficient.

thenomad 14y ago

I'm actually very grateful that background was there and running - because it reminded me I'd turned my NoScript off yesterday to deal with a particularly recalcitrant payments site...

bane 14y ago

<sarcasm> I'm so glad html5 has saved us from the cpu eating plague of flash websites. </sarcasm>

bhauer 14y ago

You can turn the animation off using the menu at the bottom right. Having written a few blog entries about how much desktop PC technology has stalled out, I chuckle a bit that a modern PC struggles to do some two-dimensional SVG/SMIL animation. Thanks for the comments. If you like it, you may be among the minority. :)