It's one of my favorite topics about Internet technologies :)My friend know I hate flash (right, those stupid cartoons!) and always avoid flash-enabling Web Sites. And here is another person like me :), presenting few good arguments for why Web masters should not become big flash-lovers:
1. Flash needs bandwidth. Flash files such as bitmap images, embedded movies, and those using sound effects take a moment to load. 2. Flash annoys users. A quiet office or a peaceful night can turn annoying if there are several users of Flash. This is because sound effects, previews and several ads spoil the quiet ambience. 3. Flash disables back button. Meta refreshes and other tricks are used by designers to disable the back button of a website. 4. Flash causes serious trouble to third-party developers. Problems in editing, modifications and charging might occur. 5. Flash are hated by search engines. Not every search engine is able to index and crawl the content of Flash websites. Hence, search engine cannot direct visitors.
So the the Web Site owners still pay to Web Developers for using of Flash technologies for their creatures? :(It's not a question to nobody, it's a cry of my soul :)))
Any alternative for on-line multimedia enabled content? Cross platform streaming?
I also hate, no not as technology, but it's use by webmasters, that's the real problem.
Posted by Michael Tabolsky on Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 20:36
There are two basic problems with Flash.
The first is that as a proprietary technology, the Internet is hostage to a single vendor. Indeed, try visiting a site "optimized" for Flash versions 8 or 9 using a browser on the Linux operating system. You're locked out of the site - the latest release for Linux is version 7. A beta version 9 is available for testing but only if you look really hard.
The second problem is that Flash is often improperly used for web design elements where dynamic html (html, css and sometimes javascript) would be much more appropriate and effective.
In his October 29, 2000 Alertbox column titled "Flash: 99% Bad", usability guru Jakob Nielsen outlined the major problems with using the proprietary Flash format in the open Internet. He revised his criticism 2 years later after Macromedia hired him as a consultant with the goal of mitigating some of Flash's most gratuitous problems.
Italian web designers seem all too enamoured with Flash - gratuitously using it in all the wrong places, such as navigation menus. Many of these designers have made a partial transition to the web from print media. Unfortunately, they seem to be blissfully unaware of how quickly their sites break down when put to the test of the open internet. While lack of visibility in search engines, the internet's gatekeeper, is probably the most egregious flaw, flash also presents significant accessibility problems for those who rely on special browsing tools.
Assuming there are some appropriate uses for vector graphics animation (the latest Britney Spears or Tiziano Ferro sites?), what are the alternatives?
A web friendly open format does exist: SVG, Scalable Vector Graphics. Firefox offers limited but improving support for SVG starting in version 1.5. Microsoft, despite claims of innovation, does not yet offer SVG support directly, although there are rumors about possible inclusion in a future IE 8. For now, support is available through an Adobe plugin. Unfortunately, Adobe will stop supporting the plugin in 2008, presumably because Adobe also now owns the closed product Flash which it acquired from Macromedia.
Posted by Sean Carlos on Monday, December 25th, 2006 at 21:50
I often search through web developer forums to pass time, and in nearly every post on someone commenting about how bad flash is, there is one person saying "Flash is a nice piece of software... you can create awesome animation files and presentations with relatively smaller file size."
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO LIKE FLASH, MANAGE THE WEBSITES.
There was a recent poll i ran across and it was "Do you like flash on websites?"
1600>no
200>yes
yet companies still havent learned..
If anyone is reading this and wants a laugh, go to www.adidas.com
Posted by drewdoog ( Anonymous )/76.208.56.163 on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 22:02
hehehe, Adidas rulez :)
Posted by flash is bad! on Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 04:55
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