On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:17:16AM +0100, 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?
Yes, mostly.
When I'm shopping on the Internet a site that uses Flash gets negative points immediately from me. If it has a button that says 'skip intro' then they go up a bit again.
I don't find that there's a *lot* of Flash used yet, at least not on the sites I seem to go to.