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macintologist · Jun 4, 2003, 04:51 AM

I play Yahoo Pool everyday at school on the PCs (when I'm supposed to be working)

and it runs normally. The animation is fast and responsive. Then I come home to my iMac 800 512MB ram OS 10.2.6 and it runs so slow!! It's really annoying! Safari, Explorer, Chimera, same story. Slow java Yahoo pool. Does Apple plan on fixing this in the future?

Guy Incognito 2 · Jun 4, 2003, 06:02 AM

Originally posted by macintologist:
I play Yahoo Pool everyday at school on the PCs (when I'm supposed to be working) and it runs normally. The animation is fast and responsive. Then I come home to my iMac 800 512MB ram OS 10.2.6 and it runs so slow!! It's really annoying! Safari, Explorer, Chimera, same story. Slow java Yahoo pool. Does Apple plan on fixing this in the future?

It's a feature. Apple decided that shouldn't waste anymore time playing Yahoo Pool...a terrible game.

Cipher13 · Jun 4, 2003, 06:17 AM

Java = suckage on a Mac.
Flash et al = suckage on a Mac.

It's just "one of those things".

andretan · Jun 4, 2003, 08:19 AM

Yahoo! Pool works fine on Safari v74

iBook 700, 256mb ram.

depolitic · Jun 4, 2003, 08:52 AM

My little sister plays yahoo pool both on my Mac G4 350 and her PC P4 2.5. She has never complained on the speed of Java games on my Mac, in fact she loves nothing but playing cool Java Games when she visits me.

Java 1.4 on Safari is very good, in my experience.

macintologist · Jun 4, 2003, 03:50 PM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Flash et al = suckage on a Mac.

Actually Flash and Shockwave perform very well in Safari but not Chimera.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jun 4, 2003, 03:56 PM

What cipher said.

Flash is slow as hell on a Mac.

brainchild2b · Jun 4, 2003, 04:03 PM

flash sucks on mac. you'd know this if you try the same site on a windows machine side by side.

Java seems to still kinda suck. That virtual pool actually used to be a mac application then was ported to windows then turned to java. Used to be really cutting edge stuff i remember when most computer couldn't run it. And now it's just a java applet. Good times.

Guy Incognito 2 · Jun 4, 2003, 04:42 PM

Originally posted by brainchild2b:
flash sucks on mac. you'd know this if you try the same site on a windows machine side by side.

Flash in Safari = 25 fps
Flash in OmniWeb 4.5 = 30 fps

I've never had problems with Flash since Safari came out.

Why exactly does Flash suck on Mac?

Methinks you and cipher are still using crummy old Chimera/Camino.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jun 4, 2003, 05:43 PM

Originally posted by Guy Incognito 2:
Flash in Safari = 25 fps
Flash in OmniWeb 4.5 = 30 fps

How the hell does that show how it compares to a PC?

BurpetheadX · Jun 5, 2003, 05:05 PM

It pretty much depends on your browser. I find pretty much all java and flash applettes work fine in IE, since IE is pretty much the industry standard, so most java applettes are written for IE.

JLL · Jun 5, 2003, 05:35 PM

Originally posted by BurpetheadX:
It pretty much depends on your browser. I find pretty much all java and flash applettes work fine in IE, since IE is pretty much the industry standard, so most java applettes are written for IE.

Applets are not written for a browser - it runs separately.

Guy Incognito 2 · Jun 5, 2003, 05:50 PM

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
How the hell does that show how it compares to a PC?

It doesn't but if someone on a PC can test the Flash frame rate, I'd like to hear the results: http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash...eedometer.html

It's obvious that Safari caps the speed at 25 and OmniWeb at 30. Is there a browser on the PC side that allows for more?

30 fps for Flash animation is fluid. Can the people that say that Flash sucks on Mac please explain why it sucks? I'm watching Flash content from www.threebrain.com with zero performance problems and zero issues.

blackbird_1.0 · Jun 5, 2003, 06:31 PM

Flash works fine for me, but Java is slow. This on an iBook 500 128mb RAM

ambush · Jun 5, 2003, 08:28 PM

Both Flash and Java are PITA-slow on my comp (impossible to play pool) and flash movies lag the entired system, even with no other apps open, etc.

It's a pain, really.

smic · Jun 5, 2003, 09:06 PM

well i just tested that flash thing
on the pc's here at school
1ghz celerons
and it got 18.18181818181...frames a second
and java licks balls on here
i think becasue its not updated
but even updating
it still licks balls loading
playable
choopy
and on my ibook some of the java games on
yahoo were fine
same with my 333mhz imac
i think its just keepin the java upto date
that helps out