I dislike when Flash sites or elements of Flash hog my system resources as well, but I really wish you guys would open up your eyes a little bit when it comes to just that aspect of it. While I would love my Mac to be free from any and all plugins, the fact of the matter is that shoddy HTML 5 code will run your system resources into the ground just as fast as shoddily written Flash.
When you compare properly written Flash to HTML 5, it has been known to perform either better or on par with it. Of all the talk that people do about Flash crashing browsers, I've never had it happen to me, ever. I've watched videos in HTML 5 that have made my fans go into overdrive and that have slowed my system down to a crawl.
I've never encountered any security issues related to Flash, either. I don't mind getting rid of Flash, just so long as there's a standard to replace it on every device across the board, and so long as it performs better than it across the board as well. It's all up to the engineer, whether the code will be optimized or not. And we all know how lazy humans can be, independent of what platform they're writing code for.
So please don't be surprised when the day finally comes, when you all get what you've wished for, but that it's not really delivering all of the efficiency you were hoping for with it. I really hope a blind eye won't be turned, just because it's your day of misguided "triumph". Again, I really don't care about Flash as a standard per-say... I just don't like biting off my nose to spite my face, for ANY cause. When the day comes that HTML 5 is fully ready to take over, and can prove its self to be light on resources no matter how sloppily the code was written.. I'll be the one buying the beers.
Doug
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