Some people have commented that this is wasteful. The reality is that it depends. You can load resource hungry websites or you can load simple static websites. Simple static websites take up very little CPU time.

However, I had this idea for people that just needs to show a static website. Instead of keeping the web view running the whole time, Plash could load the website in the web view, capture a screenshot, and then set the screenshot as the desktop view instead of the web view. That way it would look just as it would before, but it would be a static view of the web site. The reload interval would take care of keeping it up to date.

This would be opt-in.

Thoughts?

What should such an option be called?