Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 10/10/07 20:28

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:49:04 +0100, Brendan Gillatt
<brendanREMOVETHIS@brendanREMOVETHISgillatt.co.uk> wrote:

>>> Did you really just say that? Did you actually say flash has a wider
>>> cross-compatibility than plain HTML?

>> Depends on how "plain" you mean. HTML's inherent flaw is that the way
>> it looks on one browser/OS is often NOT the way it will look on
>> another. It's that inconsistency which makes it non cross-compatible.
>> Just because you can take a square peg and rip it all up into little
>> pieces doesn't mean that it fits in a round hole, cause what yer
>> gettin out on the other end ain't a square peg...it's retarded
>> bullshit, that's all you're getting. Flash is more cross compatible
>> in that what in looks like on one machine/browser is pretty much
>> exactly the way it's going to look on another machine/browser.
>>
>> Your deficient line of thinking is to sacrifice design

>You mean your site has a good design?

Try not taking your Ritalin for a few days and you'll see it.

>> usability

>Do you even check 508? You do realise that flash is nearly impossible for
>screen readers to interpret.

You do realize that it's entirely up to the developer to make their
site as accessible as they want. Most don't really give a rats ass
about blind people so they skip it, but that doesn't mean that it's
"nearly impossible". Like the Flash based web board I'm developing,
all the actual content is stored in XML files, which can be accessed
directly both inside and outside the Flash construct.

Also one shouldn't blame the tech, one should blame those who make the
screen reader software for not updating their product to work with the
latest technologies. Same with Lynx, it really wouldn't be difficult
to program in a Flash decompile that could extract all the readable
text from a Flash file. Instead they blame their laziness on Flash,
rather than getting off their stupid asses and updating their shit.
If Google can spider text content in Flash files...anybody can.

>> and
>> stability

>Flash is somehow more stable than plain ASCII now?

Oh so now you're not even talking about having sites with any HTML and
CSS? Yes, I suppose that'd be the most stable way, however your
original argument centered on CSS formatting that would break on IE5
for teh Mac where as the Flash equivalent was smaller in size and
WOULD NOT break.

>> This from the retard who thinks he can embed fonts into HTML code.

>When did I say that? Please quote, my usenet archives are obviously
>incorrect.

I wrote:

"One should probably also mention the fact that Flash allows for
custom, embedded font types and proper font anti-aliasing, both of
which HTML is wholly incapable of achieving."

Then you replied with:

"Sure it is - I know for a fact it can do so on a Solaris graphics
workstation."

Think slow now, don't hurt yourself.

--

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