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Posted by rf on 08/20/07 12:45
"Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1187610784.230477.47250@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 20, 6:31 am, "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I am well aware that you are totally pro-flash and I agree to a certain
>> extent, flash has its place.
>
> Not so much pro-Flash, as pro-correct-technology.
Noted and accepted.
>> It's nice when well done. But not in a bloody
>> advertisement for a motorway, on a ski site FFS :-(
>
> 90% of the flash on the web sucks. It is a complete waste of time,
> bandwidth, and space. Flash designers are just now starting to learn
> the advantages of thinking before they just do something in Flash.
Do you really think so? When your 90% drops down to, say, 10% then perhaps I
will agree. Until then Flash is very close to being "popup-blocked". There
might be some designers out there doing the right thing (and you have
notably advised us of a few of them on occasion) but IMHO they are, at the
moment, swamped by those who do it because they can.
I think the kind of drezigners that built that ad on that web site I cited
will have to actually die out before the web will be rid of their rubbish.
<aside>
This is the same site that once changed their colours to grey text on a
lesser grey background, and 10 pixels big. When I advised them of their
folley they advised me (and I still have the email) to use my accessibility
options to ignore their choice.
</aside>
>> This aforementioned advertisement IMHO would not work for *any* site. I
>> agree with Neredbojias (to a certain extent). I want control over my
>> computer, in that I want to choose to not display such abhorrant
>> advertisements. If the rest of the sometimes good flash goes with it then
>> so
>> be it.
>> Meta tags used to be good for placement in the search engines. Abused.
>> Ignored.
>> Popups used to be good for the occasional help screen or whatever.
>> Abused.
>> Ignored.
>> Is this to be the way for flash?
>
> I don't think so. With broadband, video, multimedia, etc, becoming
> more and more popular on the web, if Flash goes away, it will be
> replaced with something equally (or more) obnoxious.
<shudder/>
s/HTML/MPEG/ ?
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Richard.
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