Posted by Travis Newbury on 01/22/74 11:59

richard wrote:
> Checked out www.discovery.com lately?
> Almost totally done in adobe flash.
Welcome to the future...

> 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.
Obviously not anoying enought to stop discovery.com from using it.

> Being flash, if one wants to right click, the flash context menu pops up and
> you ain't got nothing else to work with.
As it should be. Flash is an application running on the web. As an
application I will decide what you can and can not do.

> Frankly, the site sucks being done entirely in flash like that.
And you are welcome to visit a different site, or complain to them. If
enough visitors leave or complain, then they will go back to a boring
old static site.

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