OT: Adding D Editor Support

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Fri Jun 20 12:17:38 PDT 2008


"Sean Kelly" <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote in message 
news:g3gq00$1kio$1 at digitalmars.com...
> == Quote from Georg Wrede (georg at nospam.org)'s article
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> >
>> > All of a sudden I heard the CPU fan revving up. I wondered what could 
>> > be
>> > the reason for it since I hadn't done anything exceptional for half an
>> > hour. Turns out there's a banner ad on the TV programming page that
>> > flashes pictures as fast as it can, with no pauses.
>> Merely changing the applet to flip the pictures ten times a second would
>> drop the CPU usage to almost undetectable levels. And the banner would
>> still look the same.
>
> No one ever said that banner ad creators had any degree of sense.  There 
> are
> some sites I refuse to go to now because of misbehaved banner ads the 
> sites
> contained.  In the case of unitedmedia.com (one site on my list), they had 
> an
> ad for a while that acted like a mini browser bomb.  They can't have 
> possibly
> tested it at all.
>
>
> Sean

I find that any form of animation on a page makes it literally impossible 
for me to actually read the page. So I disabled GIF animation and favicons, 
and installed Firefox's "Flashblock" and "QuickJava" plugins. 





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