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|  Subject: Interesting Article  Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:55 pm | |
| Macromedia says Flash is "the solution for producing and delivering high-impact web sites." It's also a solution for making your site highly annoying and downright unusable. Here's why:
Gratuitous Animation
Flash has contributed to the amount of gratuitous animation on the Web, and unlike animated GIFs, Flash animations do not respond to your browser's Stop button or your keyboard's Esc key, so they cannot be easily turned off. Users must resort to either covering the offending animation with their hand, or, more likely, leave the site altogether.
Splash Screen Renaissance
By sporting significantly smaller file sizes than equivalent GIF animations, Flash has brought back the splash screen, one of the most irritating of all web "experiences." Web users typically are looking for content, and presenting them with a content-free splash screen is a sure way to annoy, and give visitors a (good) reason to punt the site.
Flash Sites
Incorporating Flash into an HTML page or splash screen is bad, but entire sites built with Flash are positively evil because they make the Web much less usable. Flash sites render useless the browser's Back button and address bar, and make bookmarking pages inside a Flash site impossible. Printing Flash pages from your browser doesn't work, nor does intra-page keyword searching. Finally, Flash sites eliminate HTML links' visited and unvisited colors, and that color-changing feature is the Web's single most important navigational cue.
Flash Hall of Shame
There is loads of badly implemented Flash out there, but I think I've found the best (or would that be worst?) example: http://www.ford.com. If you make it past the overwrought Flash splash screen (that still weighs in at 50K), the home page has an especially distracting Flash animation that makes it almost impossible to focus on the site's content; and pushing your browser's Stop button doesn't do a thing.
Note: Since the initial publication of this article, Ford has eliminated the Flash splash page and removed the Flash animation from the home page. Web users can only hope other sites follow Ford's lead.
http://www.dack.com/web/flash_evil.html
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| | Subject: Re: Interesting Article Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:06 pm | |
| [img]sites built with Flash are positively evil[/img]
EVIL thats a bit melodramtic, this guy really didn't like Flash did he. |
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