Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lloeki 5565 days ago
In Safari with the ClickToFlash extension, flash objects are not just 'not displayed', they are not loaded at all until the placeholder is clicked. See for yourself: point Safari to http://adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and show the web inspector 'Resources' tab before clicking on a CtF placeholder. Notice that no SWF are loaded, then click on any one of them and see the SWF get fetched, along with the external process being started in your OS process list.