[thelist] Please tell me why I hate Flash

[sulasmin suruji]

--- Michael Roberto <mjr at shriek.net> wrote:
> >It takes four minutes to find out the viaduct is a
> furniture sales rep.
> >It takes five minutes to find out that turbonium
> has a turbocharger,
> >and five valves per cylinder.
> 
> The medium has nothing to do with the information
> design that these
> sites incorporate.  Blame the architect not the
> flash.
> 
> >If you didn't have to rely on plugins, if Flash
> weren't so doggoned
> >slow to load, *then* you might argue that Flash is
> a very attractive
> >tool to detract users from noticing that you
> haven't gotten around
> >to making your site useful, I suppose.
> 
> Yet again, the flash player has nothing to do with
> the information
> design and making a site useful.  Last time i opened
> Cold Fusion
> Studio it didn't automatically start writing great
> cold fusion code.
> Its up to the programmer to do the work and make the
> site useful.
> 
> Go checkout
> http://www.motown.com/classicmotown/frameset_2.html
> the classic motown website.  This site is well
> designed from
> a informational standpoint as well as design
> standpoint.  Kioken
> didn't a great job with this site, as they do with
> most of their
> projects.
> 
> >I don't notice a whole lot of flash at eBay or
> google. 
> 
> Flash is not the be all end all for web design. 
> It's a tool for
> creating media rich websites and presentations.  I
> think you'd
> have a hard time getting anyone to admit that either
> eBay and 
> google are media rich, and that either should be
> designed in flash.
> 
> >You suppose it's because those folks have a clear
> vision of what 
> >they are trying to accomplish with their websites,
> and don't want 
> >Flash presentations to divert users from actually
> *entering* their 
> >websites?
> 
> No, i suppose its because these folks want quick
> loading text.
> Having a clear vision of what they are trying to
> accomplish has
> absolutely nothing to do with flash.  
> 
> If you have serious arguments towards the medium
> thats one thing,
> having arguments towards the designers is something
> entirely different.
> There are some things that flash designers do that I
> dont like.  Other
> designers I find fantastically talented in their
> ability to blend
> text, sound and animation.
> 
> Mike
> 
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