Strange CPU usage caused by some Flashkit pages

[canuckster]

I run Win2000 on a P-III 866 machine, and have discovered that after posting a reply and waiting for the page to refresh (ie with my reply now showing up in the forum), my machine gets really clunky. Through Win2000's Task Manager, I see my CPU usage is pushing 100%. So I close the Netscape window that had the Flashkit page, and that solves the problem. (Netscape is still running in a couple other windows.) Normally I'd only have to press ESC to stop the page loading, but that has no effect.

I don't know enough about javaScript and the your embedded links to begin to guess at what might be causing this, but I thought I'd point it out.

[Pure_Morning]

If people use a duplicating movie with many alpha layers e.g. transparencies then it eat's CPU power.
have a look at this smoke effect i did, look at your CPU power when running it

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Anima...06/index.shtml

It's just a really CPU intensive operation to perform...

[canuckster]

Yeah, I finally realized it was just coming from people's footers--mine included! It took me awhile to figure this out because every page has a different collection of footers, and some are easier on the CPU, so I'd mistakenly ruled footers out as the cause. Now I know better.