On Friday 08 February 2002 12:20 pm, Dan Kolb wrote: [snip]
Like Flash, you need the viewer as well as the server tools.
Yes, well, Flash is evil, and IMO any web designer who uses Flash should be hung, drawn, quartered, shot and burned (and not necessarily in that
I have to partly disagree with you here. Flash as a technology is very good at what it is designed for - introducing some interaction/movement into what is basically a static medium. The problem with Flash - as with many other medium - is that 97% if flash produced is absolute drivel and annoying beyond imagination. The other 3% is good, usefull and enhances the site it is on.
order). *Especially* the websites where they have a Flash intro, and never use it again.
Here I have to agree with you completely and utterly. If I visit a site like this then I leave it before the flash has finished and never go back. Just recently we went through a spate where firms kept coming in to offer to revamp our work site. It was alarming how many of them started the schpeel by saying - We can give you this nice Flash intro that will impress.......... I had two very big boys at the end of a buzzer to remove the trash. If I want to watch cartoons I'll turn on 'The Cartoon Network' (One of the best TV channels ever IMO).
Dan
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