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Posted by Krusty on 11/22/69 11:36
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote
> Well, after too many instances of my laptop being brought to an
> uncontrollable crawl by commercial web sites which insisted on
> dragging their way through a non-optional flash video before one could
> get any access to their normal content, I de-installed the flash
> plugin.
A ridiculous solution to anecdotal bad design. Again, simply because someone
doesn't know how to use Flash certainly in my mind doesn't justify removing
the plug in. That sounds like throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I mean, I don't use Flash extensively, I don't work for Macromedia, but
there certainly is a LOT of misinformation in this thread. It seems like
more people are making emotional responses rather than well thought out
authoritative replies.
Just always remember, Bad designers can create horrible, huge, clunky jpegs
just the same way inexperienced designers who think they're programmers can
create bad Flash. Flash is *advanced*. It's far more advanced than most
"designers" feel comfortable with, and certainly more advanced than any
formal programing training that any designer has ever attended. I think the
problem lies with people who go, "I used Freehand...how hard could Flash
be?" and then proceed to break every convention known to man to create a 2
meg opening slide show on their home pages.
Go to Flashforward.com and look at some of the nominated Flash pieces. Those
are hyper-advanced web applications that are *impossible* to do in any other
technology with the speed and efficiency of development...and again, the
issue of accessibility is simply, "you can do it, people just choose not to,
don't blame Flash for it".
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