Posted by Ed Jay on 09/21/06 18:16

richard scribed:

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>"Runnin' on Empty" <westfork59840@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:dsCdnXtSvYBwXI_YnZ2dnUVZ_umdnZ2d@yvn.com...
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>> "richard" <don@john.son> wrote in message
>> news:eetdem05nv@news2.newsguy.com...
>>> Checked out www.discovery.com lately?
>>> Almost totally done in adobe flash.
>>> While Flash was primarily designed to enhance certain features of a
>>> website, I for one find it totally disgusting as the full coding for the
>>> entire page. Yeah it loads superfast. But annoying as hell.
>>> Being flash, if one wants to right click, the flash context menu pops up
>>> and you ain't got nothing else to work with.
>>>
>>> Frankly, the site sucks being done entirely in flash like that.
>>>
>>
>> It sucks exactly why?
>>
>> Because you can't read the code?
>>
>> Looks good to me...
>>
>> Runnin'
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>Oh yeah. I have no qualms with the looks. But coding a full page entirely in
>flash? Why?
>What if I don't have flash?

If you looked at their code, you'd notice that if Flash isn't integrated
with your browser, they invite you to download the plug-in. Of course, the
sniffing is done using Javascript, so if you don't have js enabled...
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