On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 05:53 -0500, David Boles wrote: > With both Adblock and Flashblock disabled the original page at > http://www.news.com.au/ loads more slowly because this site is, IMO, > truly overloaded with regular ads and flash ads. Very busy page. > Guessing that it took 4-5 seconds longer to complete. As I said, it's a good "bad example" website. If I want to give a browser a punishing test, that site's good for it. But I find other sites, not full of ads/flash/refreshes, can be just as problematic, particularly if they go nuts on restyling HTML into columns and boxes everywhere. Webforums being a typical example, especially the ones that include user pictures next to the author's contribution. > You do realise that this (these) pages never really do 'stop' loading? > The first one updates itself on a regular basis. And all of those > Flash ads never stop. That I found very annoying. Yes, it's a very painful site to use, on a number of points. I had my bank's site do something similarly annoying some time ago. They replaced all the navigational graphics with individual flash files. Apart from being a real drag, I don't think Flash should be used in something that requires security. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
