Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/08/07 14:02

SpaceGirl wrote:
> On Oct 8, 1:29 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> SpaceGirl wrote:
>>> On Oct 8, 10:26 am, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailbox-
>>> sicur...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>>> On Oct 8, 6:02 am, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net> wrote:> Phil Payne wrote:
>>>>>>> It is not really about processor speed (unless your using an old 486)
>>>>>>> but connection speed. Yours was broadband. My point is not everyone
>>>>>>> 'has|can have|will have in the near future' access to broadband.
>>>>>> But even on broadband - 30 seconds?
>>>>>> Most users have MUCH shorter fuses and would long since have clicked
>>>>>> away.
>>>>> Ohhhh! I see your point. Sorry dialup-mindset. Sometimes I *wish* a page
>>>>> loaded in 30 seconds!
>>>> http://www.mortgagenews2.com
>>>> It's from the same company that SpaceGirl gave the previous example
>>>> from. It's a shocker though, I mean it should have been done in HTML +
>>>> CSS for style + PHP / some other server side language for the user
>>>> account stuff.
>>> Why should it have? Because you don't like Flash?
>> When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
>
> :)
>
>> I happen to agree. Flash is good for some things. But this could have
>> been easily done without it.
>
> Yep... maybe
>
>> And I think it should have been.
>
> Possibly. Really Flash doesn't bring anything to this particular site.
>
>> It would have been smaller and faster.
>
> I'm not sure about that. It would be interesting to time the site.
>
>> It could have been spidered by
>> the search engines (probably not applicable in this particular case).
>
> Google etc can spider well constructed Flash movies.
>
>> But most of all, it would have been accessible to the blind.
>
> Yes
>
> They could have easily added the facility though.
>

And if they did it in plain css/html, they would have everything they do
now, but wouldn't have to add it.

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