Posted by Neredbojias on 01/07/06 23:55

With neither quill nor qualm, Krusty quothed:

> "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".

Then using your stated philosophy, there is no rationale for banning
guns...

Nope, I've been zonked by Flash too many times, too. Until they build-
in some kind of stopper or something, you can have it.

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Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.

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