On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:08:48PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 8/16/06, Bob Dove b.dove@virgin.net wrote:
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.
I use the "FlashBlock" plugin for Firefox which lets me choose if and when I see the animation.
The bad thing about overly graphical websites is the lack of copy and paste. You'd be surprised how many companies put their email address, phone number and postal address in an image.
There is of course a valid reason for doing that, it prevents 'address scraping' by spammers. (There are other more friendly ways of doing this I know)