All right, I can see your point. But I don't understand why GOG.com should change it's front page just because some people (including myself) experience a minor slowdown?

If the slowdown is significant though, you may just skip the front page and go directly to community or browse games section, since nothing interesting on the main page was added until they released Populous today.

The front page advertising Witcher 2 looked pretty amazing, and it was just for like 36 hours, so I think people definitely overreact.

I agree. It's GOG's call. I never said they should change things.

If it had had sound with it, I would have complained though. :) But that's just because I have a personal dislike for sites to start playing sound as soon as the page opens.

Yeah, I agree. Sound would be awful, I block all ads on websites that do that. I don't know why some companies believe that commercial that start playing with sound without users consent are succesful.

I'm mostly so annoyed about that ads I make sure I will never buy anything from them.

Plus 1 for legitimate concern.

I cannot believe that there are other peoples having the same condition as what I'm thinking. Sometimes, my internet can be really slow especially when there are many members of my family connecting to the wifi wireless. Now, whenever I visit Gog.com since the witcher 2 video appear automatically on the main homepage, its really make my entire internet slow, not just the loading of the homepage. Great to know this.

And by people you meant the one or two guys out of thousands that brought up the matter. Talking about overreacting...

GoG should add a lite front page for those with slower computers and mobile browsers.

Nope, I've seen complains about that "video" in various threads on GOG.com , but yes, maybe it's small percentage only.

And more than 1 person are people :P

The movie file is only 400kb. The Populous: The Beginning banner alone is about 210kb and you load several other banners of about the same size. The slowdown is not bandwidth related, it is more than likely your computer trying to tackle the WebM/HTML5 movie and the CPU bogging down under the strain.

I don't know jack shit about Flash, but yeah, HTML5 2D canvas are "slow" because they aren't hardware accelerated.

However, 2D graphics usually aren't "state of the art" crazy CPU eating beasts, so it isn't a big issue unless you are the type to do serious browsing on your cell phone or a low grade laptop.

For movies, I suppose it depends what kind of movie decoder they got embedded in the browser, but my understanding is that WebM (Chrome, Firefox, Opera) is pretty performant and so is MPEG4 (IE, Safari).

However, the openness of HTML5 and the fact that it's built in the browsers beats Flash any day of the week in my book.

In the long term, Flash will eat dust as web users move on to newer browsers that support HTML5.