[thelist] Please tell me why I hate Flash

[sulasmin suruji]

--- deke  <web at master.gen.in.us> wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2001, at 14:31, Erik posted a message
> which said:
> 
> > Flash bashing arises from ignorance and prejudice
> ... to draw an 
> > analogy, not all Arabs carry suitcase bombs onto
> airplanes, and this 
> > is why it's inappropriate to raise a stink because
> someone with a 
> > beard and turban boards your flight.
> 
> But isn't it appropriate to raise a stink when
> someone with a ticking
> suitcase boards your flight?
> 
> > Here are two 100% Flash sites that are pretty darn
> good:
>  
> > http://www.turbonium.com/
> > http://www.viaduct.co.uk/
> 
> Have you ever heard the expression "damnation by
> faint praise"?
> 
> 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.
> 
> And that's only because I already *have* a Flash
> plugin. The folks
> that don't? They have to download the plugin, and
> close their 
> browser in order to install it.  How much you wanna
> bet that they
> will remember your URL at all, much less kindly,
> when they finally
> get through all this hassle?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thirty years ago, we commented on hot rods that were
> pretty but
> weren't very hot by saying "if it won't go, chrome
> it."  
> 
> I don't notice a whole lot of flash at eBay or
> google. 
> 
> 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?
> 
> deke
> 
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