[ALUG] Flash

[Richard Lewis]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 10:17, Bob Dove wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Will flash be the death of the internet? A company I do some PR work for
> has for the past two years employed a young 'whizz kid' (MD's son) to liven
> up their website. Has lots of 'flash' flash (the company do manufacture
> Studio Flash equipment) animations &c, but takes so long to load that
> potential customers move onto a competitors site in 'penny plain' HTML.
> Despite being told that the only people who can be bothered with flash are
> other website designers who do not buy their products they do persist. I
> suppose the MD's son has to be employed at something! What do ALUGers
> think. Are we getting too clever by far and missing the point?
>
I've said my bit:

http://ironchicken.livejournal.com/1006.html

;-)

Its the information hiding that annoys me most. I don't have the official 
Flash plugin installed, and GPL FLash is quite limited. Flash should be 
reseverd for arty/designy stuff thats /additional/ to the main content of a 
site.

Cheers,
Richard
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