[thelist] is Flash still 99% bad (was: Acrobat-bashing? )

Stuart Young syoung at unitec.ac.nz
Tue Nov 16 19:51:51 CST 2004


> Discussion for extra credit, is Flash still 99% bad now that Dr.
Nielsen is 
> a consultant to Macromedia? 
>
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/macromedia_nielsen.html

Ha ha, yes but he did give a couple of intervews explaining that he was
warming to Flash since new accessibility features were introduced with
MX:
http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/interview.php?id=45
http://www.sitepoint.com/print/922

(the Flash bit is about half the way down each page)

and surely it is better to change/influlence things from the inside
rather than refusing to have anything to do with something through some
notion of maintaining purity and avoiding claims of "sell-out".

cheers

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