[thelist] Re: Is flash always bad [was: google and other
Diane Soini
dianesoini at earthlink.net
Mon May 10 21:13:26 CDT 2004
In my opinion, people tend not to use Flash for what it is best for.
I think it is ok to use it for animations that decorate a site, or for
things like cartoons or games that you really can't do any other way.
But not for the entire web site. Who really cares if flash is used in a
small area of the page? Flash or image, it's all pretty much the same.
But if the whole navigation or the whole web site is Flash? No, that's
not good. If you don't like, it or can't use it, your screwed.
The other thing Flash really does well, that seems to be seriously
overlooked, is to create custom user interfaces for complex web
applications. You would hardly need to bookmark or spider deep into a
web application. You can use Flash to make a tabbed interface, true
combo box, or other user interface widgets that you can't get with
straight html. And you can create an interface that can communicate
with the server without refreshing the page. Flash also removes some of
the browser compatibility issues of javascript, making complicated UI
elements easier to do.
Nevertheless, with something like that you would probably have to
create a non-flash alternative, or else you will lose some customers.
Unless you are on an intranet and can dictate what people can use.
Diane
On Monday, May 10, 2004, at 02:26 PM, thelist-request at lists.evolt.org
wrote:
> Re: Is flash always bad [was: google and other
> search engines] (Allen Schaaf)
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