On 18/12/2018 13:36, Anton Aylward wrote:
Is that auto-play that requires the net connection or just animated GIF?
I don't mean a GIF. I _wish_ they were just GIFs. No, quite a few news/tech news/current affairs sort of sites play an embedded video on the page, either as soon as it's opened (even if it's a background tab) or as soon as it is first activated. I came for text and text is all I want. Perhaps a few illustrations. Not video. So, to give you an example, I went to: https://www.cnet.com/ I opened a few tabs with a middle-click, almost at random. #3 was this: https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-discover-rare-fossil-from-the-big-bang/ This has an autoplay video, unrelated to the story, at bottom right. Currently it is trying to tell me about "the top 5 best tech toys". Next I had: https://www.cnet.com/news/i-was-wrong-about-the-motorola-razr/ This autoplays "So retro: designing the original..." (the rest is cut off) This is the behaviour I mean. Once the site designers learned that some of us actually know how to open pages in background tabs, the video now *waits until you activate the tab,* then it plays. This prevents the previous behaviour: half a dozen tabs, all playing _different_ videos, or at least ones that start at different times, with a hideous babble of noise coming from one's speakers.
Yes, but is that relevant? As far as I can tell the incredibly high load factors are an emergent property of wait times rather than CPU load.
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