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It's All Flash Now
from the too-much dept
Macromedia wants Flash to take over the world. They’re getting ready to launch a new product that will make it easier to design entire websites in Flash. While I understand some of the benefits of this, I also see it as pissing off a lot of users who have problems with Flash sites, or dealing with incompatibilities. I think the main problem I have with Flash is that it tends to make people too creative and try to build fancy (and slow to download) animations and other gimmicks into their sites when they’re not at all necessary.
Comments on “It's All Flash Now”
Problem
The biggest problem with flash is that it is non-indexable so your website would never enter any of the search engines!!
Better web-apps
Although, Flash does provide a great way to implement dialog boxes and things that we can’t do with HTML (their new version is supposed to support these things). And it’s not from Microsoft. I doubt, though, that Macromedia has put a complete development toolkit behind it.