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smackfu on Jan 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames f...

So I follow the URL, and it takes 30 seconds to show me three lines of text on the screen, and I can't skip forward or anything.

How is this better than Flash landing pages, exactly?

sp332 on Jan 13, 2014 | [–]

Because now you can make people's iPads slow, too :)

hnha on Jan 13, 2014 | [–]

It does not require proprietary nonfree software.

talmand on Jan 13, 2014 | [–]

So crappy performance and bad customer experience is okay as long as the software involved was not proprietary and free?

I don't understand what you're statement means in terms of what it is replying to.

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