The Opera Browser is closed source, yet it kicks Firefox's ass and has been the most innovative browser in existence this past decade.
It is leaner (small installation size), meaner (better resource management - try opening 200 browser tabs in firefox I dare you! I've done it in Opera), and faster (Faster page loading times, etc) than all the other browsers out there right now.
The slow implementations you're talking about are due to the retarded programming of the game authors.
Most people in Flash come from a designer background and not a programming background, hence inefficient code.
as for implementations of Flash getting faster and faster, the demo of Flash 10 they showed at Adobe Max was fast enough to run Quake 1 in fullscreen!
Check the 2nd video in the link below from sneak peeks at Adobe Max in Chicago last year:
http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/10/03/adobe-max-chicago-sneak-peeks/
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The Opera Browser is closed source, yet it kicks Firefox's ass and has been the most innovative browser in existence this past decade.
It is leaner (small installation size), meaner (better resource management - try opening 200 browser tabs in firefox I dare you! I've done it in Opera), and faster (Faster page loading times, etc) than all the other browsers out there right now.
The slow implementations you're talking about are due to the retarded programming of the game authors. Most people in Flash come from a designer background and not a programming background, hence inefficient code. as for implementations of Flash getting faster and faster, the demo of Flash 10 they showed at Adobe Max was fast enough to run Quake 1 in fullscreen! Check the 2nd video in the link below from sneak peeks at Adobe Max in Chicago last year: http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/10/03/adobe-max-chicago-sneak-peeks/