Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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People who design websites built entirely in flash and think it's acceptable to wait 2 minutes watching a cleverly-animated progress bar before you can get into the site, which then doesn't allow you to highlight and copy any information, should be taken outside and beaten with their own keyboards while being forced to watch endless loops of their own animations until they choke on thier own bloody vomit.
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Join Date: May 2004
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agreed.
Tables are teh win. |
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25 chars of wasted space.
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Flash has advantages and disadvantages.
Last edited by ast3r3x : 2005-03-18 at 10:49. |
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Cynical Old Bastard
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I could not agree with you more!!!
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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those are just people who dont know how to use flash...
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
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In many, even most cases, it is probably best to avoid flash, and in terms of accesibility, Flash is a pretty bad way to go, but some sites do use it to good effect. I am thinking specifically of www.homestarrunner.com
That site is built entirely in Flash, and, since it's primarily a site devoted to presenting Flash cartoons, it works well. My advice to someone designing a new website would be to avoid flash, but it does need to be taken on a case by case basis, I think. |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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in terms of accesibility?
98% of computers world wide have flashplayer... and 56kers should not be using the internet. |
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Fishhead Family Reunited
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Slightly Off Center
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use a flash animation if you must, but designing a whole site in nothing but flash should meet with at least the above punishment, followed by several months of using nothing but Windows 95, Explorer 2.0, and a 33.6 modem to access the Internets.
It's not unlike someone using Photoshop to type a four-paragraph letter. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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And you forget that the term "accessibility" does not just mean "compatibility" but encompasses a much larger field including UI accessibility. Think along the lines of, "how would a disabled person be able to use my site with a screen reader or a wand or such?" Of course, disabled people aren't the majority; so, I guess they don't matter anyway. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Fishhead Family Reunited
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Slightly Off Center
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Obviously, disabled people, along with people who don't have broadband, should not even be using the internet.
Then again - maybe it's people who believe the above, who really should not even be using the internet... hmm.... |
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is the next Chiquita
Join Date: Feb 2005
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One more thing;
If you want to make website entirely in flash, fine. Just have a non flash mirror. Actually, I would love it if the websites all had a text only mirror. That would be a huge boon.... EDIT: I meant, all websites everywhere should have a text only mirror. Last edited by Banana : 2005-03-18 at 13:06. |
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25 chars of wasted space.
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Post a link to the site.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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it depends who you're targeting
if you're a website like yahoo msn sony apple etc... you have a wide range of visitors. but if you're a specialty site, graphic design, fashion, film, entertainment etc.. your client is not some wyoming grandmother looking up gucci handbags. what im trying to say is, if a website is purely informational or very commerce oriented, then yes, flash wont do and yes these sites should be capable of loading on 56k... but if its a site like www.vulcan.com or www.collider.com.au are not ment to be visited by the "overwhelming majoring of users in the world are restricted to dial-up access" |
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is the next Chiquita
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Wait..
I just had a inspiration.... What if we passed a law requiring all porn be flash-only site? That'd clean up the filth a lot and make filtering a breeze!!! |
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Antimatter Man
Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
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From Oral to Aural... presumably less filthy, but it is dynamically text driven... |
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