>> Oh, right. I couldn't tell; my PC was too busy dying. (Perhaps the VM
>> I was running this under has insufficient RAM?) All I know is that
>> Flash was doing that 10 years ago. I still don't see what all the fuss
>> is about.
>
> Because it's using the HTML5 canvas with Javascript so no need for
> Flash; bye-bye plugins and the "You need to download the latest version
> of Flash"

Right, but... why does it run at a crawl and utterly cripple the 
browser? (In the end, I couldn't actually terminate Chrome; I just 
terminated the entire VM - the equivalent of a hard shutdown.)

I'm all for new technology, but this one doesn't seem to enable you to 
do anything interesting, and requires absurd amounts of computer power 
to do what little it does.

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