[ILUG] Anyone sending texts from the Vodafone website?

[Niall O Broin]

On 30 Jan 2008, at 09:52, Stephen Brooks wrote:

> There's an evil little spinning javascript that's checking message  
> length.  Pegs cpu when you're on that page and slows everything  
> down (guess their dev team haven't heard of setInterval  
> callbacks...).  It's slightly sluggish on my current machine but  
> nothing like a 10 second lag.  (Ubuntu 7.10 on a 3Hz P4 with HT)

Sheer genius - and I thought Flash was a CPU muncher. On my box (2GHz  
Core Duo) Firefox's CPU usage is at about 6% now - when I go to the  
compose text page, it jumps to nearly 40% . I wonder could I bill  
Vodafone for the wasted cycles?


Niall