Whisky Van Gogh Go

So I had to load an IE6 virtual machine (Win2k) just to check if Google Pac-Man would work. And it does! Swimmingly!

Not only that, but it seemed to be running much smoother than on Chrome or Safari. Spent a few seconds scratching my head… and also noticed that there was no sound because I hadn’t installed Flash in order to keep the VM “lean.”

So, to clarify: Flash impairs browsers to the point where IE6 is outperforming all the SquirrelTraceFishMonkeyV8 awesomeness that folks spent the past ten years working on. Perhaps that’s a gross oversimplification, and we’d need a proper HTML 5 <audio> version in order to benchmark. But still, whoa.