[thelist] flash accessibility/usability

[Erik Mattheis]

At 10:22 AM +0000 2/27/02, martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com wrote:
>which
>either speaks to the laziness/narcissism of Flash developers (ie that
>it doesn't take too long - they'd just rather create stuff that goes whiz),
>or to a weakness in the tool that essential tasks are difficult to carry
>out.
[...]
>much (most?) Flash is used for
>tasks where it doesn't add value over HTML/Server Side coding,
[...]
>greedy, lazy Flash developers
[...]
>good Flash uses are so rare as to be almost
>invisible

Christ Martin, why all the hateful language? Do you feel threatened?

Myself and others in this thread have reason to be upset as we are
familiar with Flash and are frustrated that so many people that bash
it more often than not don't know what they're talking about. We have
reason to be incensed, but when you get huffy it just makes you look
foolish.

Why don't you point me to a resource which is critical of Flash that
demonstrates with Flash that demonstrates it's inherent shortcomings?
I'd really like to see this, I doubt one exists ... people as sharply
critical of Flash don't know dink about it.

There's any number of places you can go to demonstrate the horrors of
CSS as well as antiquated criticism of stepping outside the 6x6x6
color box. It was cool to diss frames for a period of time before
people learned when and how to use them. People driving horseless
carriages had problems with cars. The Luddites laid themselves down
on train tracks in an attempt to send the iron horse back to hell
where it belonged. I imagine there was resistance to the talkies in
their early days, as well as color film later. And now here you are
criticizing a technology which clearly augments and sustains the
impact you can make inside a browser window - and your reasoning is
that movement of any kind is aesthetically unappealing or the
sacrifice of some standard browser elements or a larger budget
_always_ outweighs the benefit.

Although I'm getting some sort of sick pleasure about being right on
this, I'll make the suggestion that you shut up and be happy with all
the traffic Flash is driving away from my sites and on to yours.
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- Erik Mattheis

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