[thelist] Flash Based E-Commerce Package

[aardvark]

> From: Seb Barre <sebastien at oven.com>
> 
> If used sensibly and intelligently, Flash can produce a very elegant, easy 
> to navigate site.  Of course, I guess that can be said of any technology. =)

you should see the site i'm building out of popsicle sticks...

anyway, part of my resistence to Flash is that regardless of how 
nice and clean it is, it's still being viewed on the web -- that's the 
medium...

and after the last few years, many people (my family, for example) 
expect e-commerce sites (the big ones, you know, that usually 
work) to generally work the same...

so, if a back button works on Amazon, will it work on the Flash 
site?  what about the tab key?  or the Refresh button?  buttons that 
depress when you click them, or display alt text if they are 
images?  what about radio buttons and select menus?  they don't 
look like the ones on Amazon, are they like the ones on ad 
banners that screw you for clicking?

etc...

people have those expectations, and you can't expect to change 
them all by youself, so you need to adapt to them... a good 
developer will, regardless of the tools used, but it seems harder 
with some than with others...