On 17-Aug-06 cl@isbd.net wrote:
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.
-- Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)
I don't think it will be the death of the Internet, but I agree that it's becoming far too intrusive. I think that Bob's and Chris's point that people will shift their attention away from over-Flash-y sites is the more likely trend in the future.
Flash certainly has its place -- as in the very entertaining
(a lot more to this than meets the eye ... a very complex design), but all too often it is indeed pure visual bling.
I find it specially annoying when it is used in advertising slots on newspaper websites. I quite often read various newspapers on line, and it increases the load time, can slow down computer response, and is distracting (which I suppose is the intention). When the advertisers catch on that people more often react negatively than positively (if that is the case ... ) then they'll change their approach.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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