The problem I have with Flash sites in general (not saying all are like this, but I'm sure we all know about many which are this way) is that they're very often not accessible (unusable for people with screenreaders, for example), not really all that good for SEO, and they break many web conventions (like not being able to use the "back" button on the browser, for example).
That being said, Flash has some great uses, and many devs and artists have done amazing things with it. The problem I have is when people will use it for anything and everything. Want to use it
within a site? Sure, there have been some wonderful things done here. But it's when people try to use it
as the site -- where all the nav, all the content, all the everything is in Flash.
Basically, it comes down to exactly what Andrew said...
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Originally Posted by andrew A lot of the bad things people say about flash aren't Flash's problems: they're the designers/developers fault. Really, you can make a accessible fast loading site in Flash as easy as you can make a slow loading horid page in html. It's all dependent on the developer.
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Now it's also up to the developer to know the right and wrong times to use what tech. Sometimes it's better to use Flash for something, html for others. All of that comes with experience. |