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Wow, that background animation slowed my Firefox to a crawl. Works quite well on Chrome though. Fancy stuff. HTML5?

Edit: Wow, actually a lot going on in this guy's site. The little animated menus bottom left and right of the article. The filter searchable previous posts. The swivel-transition topic group-changes. The speed-controllable animation. Pretty neat, fanciest blog I've ever seen!

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Perhaps it's fitting that the website is tiamat.tsotech.com and the offending animation appears to be in a file called tiamat.js:

"In Babylonian myths, Tiamat is a huge, bloated female dragon that personifies the saltwater ocean, the water of Chaos."

Source: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tiamat.html

Fully loads 1 core of my i7. Who the fuck makes things like this.

Just wanted to post the same OT: i5 spinning at 3 GHz. No comment.

Shame I can no longer hear anything thanks to the roar of my laptop's fans!

Text only link for TFA: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiamat.tsotech.co...

Thank you for that. My god, how can anyone think that animation is necessary?

<sarcasm> I'm so glad html5 has saved us from the cpu eating plague of flash websites. </sarcasm>

52520- Google Chrom 98.2 00:15.20 6/1 2 114 296 22M 74M 60M 107M 873M 799 799 running 501 30984

98.2%! Silly background animation. Looks cool, but clearly totally inefficient.

Safari on my MBP slowed down to grave. (Wonder how it fares on a surface pro with IE10)

Bottom right corner has a submenu for background animation (confusingly says 'normal' by default).

You can turn the animation off using the menu at the bottom right. Having written a few blog entries about how much desktop PC technology has stalled out, I chuckle a bit that a modern PC struggles to do some two-dimensional SVG/SMIL animation.

Thanks for the comments. If you like it, you may be among the minority. :)

I'm actually very grateful that background was there and running - because it reminded me I'd turned my NoScript off yesterday to deal with a particularly recalcitrant payments site...

I recommend NoScript.

Eh, I find NoScript a bit extreme. Really makes you realise how common Flash elements are...

Yeah, generally I have no problems with Flash, and I find having to enable everything or stare at gutted pages irritating. Plus, how do I know what an element is until I enable it - so how am I supposed to know which elements I want to enable?

(If you have any tips I'm missing, feel free to fill me in.)

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