Oh yes, the security was a huge problem. I absolutely do not want to go back to the land of Flash for many reasons.
Haha! The dictator reference is specifically in regards to intrusive CPU/battery-wasting Javascript ads. Which, I expect to see many more of if I ever disable adblock.
Edit: I just checked out your article and the referenced one. Chris Black responded to your issue with his code in the follow up article:
> 98% of the code optimizations from the last demo completely missed the point of purposefully redrawing the whole screen to compare performance. They were still good submissions, just not for the context of this comparison.
How does he justify erasing the background twice each update? Bear in mind each erase is the single slowest operation in the loop, and if you scale up the complexity of an animation it will become increasingly irrelevant.
Haha! The dictator reference is specifically in regards to intrusive CPU/battery-wasting Javascript ads. Which, I expect to see many more of if I ever disable adblock.
Edit: I just checked out your article and the referenced one. Chris Black responded to your issue with his code in the follow up article:
> 98% of the code optimizations from the last demo completely missed the point of purposefully redrawing the whole screen to compare performance. They were still good submissions, just not for the context of this comparison.