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Nothing beats the ease with which the regular flash player can be blocked, and then occasionally loaded by mouse click as it works with flash block and the like
by hcopr 13y ago
Nothing beats the ease with which the regular flash player can be blocked, and then occasionally loaded by mouse click as it works with flash block and the like. The danger of it becoming an extension is that it's now more difficult to have that block/override workflow. And there's always the dreadful prospect of people embedding it directly into their site, potentially leading to a new wave of blanket JavaScript blocking as a response.
- Grue3 13y agoThe current reliance of sites on Javascript is worse than Flash ever was. Flash elements can be blocked, but if you block javascript, this disables the entire site, so you have to live with CPU chugging mess of a website.
- hcopr 13y agoThat is sort of my point though. On the other hand, I can see myself just stopping to use sites that abuse JavaScript, keeping the "good" ones. Maybe that kind of feedback just have happened on the web a long time ago.
- roarroar 13y agoToo bad. The browser is becoming general purpose with asm.js, WebGL etc. You can't hold back progress.
- hcopr 13y agoI think you might have misunderstood my point.