Flash is Evil Absolute!
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Once upon a time, there was only one evil in the online universe…. It’s name was Java.
It was slow, and inefficient, and jealously guarded by it’s creator, Sun Microsystems, even though they claimed it was an open standard. The fools at Netscape took it upon themselves to create a light version of Java, and dubbed it JavaScript.
JavaScript became the most horrific creation ever to be coded… Enabling websites that pop up windows … thousands of them… to the point that you can only stop it by killing your web browser’s process, rebooting your computer, or disconnecting from the internet.
The great coders, in their wisdom, created the popup blocker. Thus many were saved from insanity…
But in the late 90′s something that was originally intended as an alternative to animated GIFs and Shockwave Director, which had become too big and bulky for most of the systems at the time was invente… And it was destined to usurp the great evil itself, Java…..
Okay, so basically in a round about way…. Flash sucks ass. it is loaded with memory leaks when used on a Gecko or other platform, it sucks up system resources, it is totally inaccessible to the blind, and it’s just a major pain in the ass.
Grrrr! And the most evil of evils…. these goddamn rollover flash ads. Some stupid ad for BurgerCon from McDonald’s is on the yahoo music page and every time my mouse pointer so much as grazes the side of the ad, it freezes my browser while the ad rolls over half my screen and some has-been sings “BurgerCon! It’s On!” in classic metal style… Then the damn ad won’t go away until you click it.
Of course these aren’t as annoying as the Jamster ads that AOL runs in the AIM window. Your AIM window just starts spewing hip-hop crap at random when the ad changes… if the window is minimized you have no idea where it’s coming from… scares the hell out of me on a regular basis.
Whoever thought rollover flash ads up should be hung, drawn, quartered and their head put on a pike.
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