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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

One of my pet peeves is designers who put "total design freedom" in the way
of site usability by constructing entire sites in Flash. I have been to
sites that have everything down to their contract and driving directions
done in Flash. What is the reason for this that is more important than
rendering the type in a format that I can cut and paste into my contact
manager, synch with my Palm or email to someone? Sure the type is pretty,
but having to retype information does not help my productivity as a user.

David

On 9/28/01 2:58 PM, "Medical Illustration" <druid AT email.unc.edu> wrote:

>> Why anyone would
>> want to do an entire web site in flash is beyond me, but there it is.
> 
> Let's see, should I list all the reasons I can think of for desiring to do
> this? Off the top of my head, there comes. .  .
> 1. Complete and total design freedom
> 2. Ability to create truly custom interaction
> 3. Ability to present several pages of info without having to change HTML
> pages -- avoiding that damned blank page as the new HTML loads. . .
> 
> Shall I continue?  No offense, but used correctly Flash is a wonderful tool
> for web design, much better than HTML alternatives.
> 
> That¹s not to say that the coder should continually attempt to throw you
> into the flash version (can't even imagine why the hell this would happen)
> or put up a site that doesn't detect your player version to avoid bugs that
> leave users stuck, but I think even now, in the era of dial up, all - flash
> sites are a viable alternative to HTML sites, if and only if, you are an
> advanced flash designer and you know how to control the streaming/loading of
> content well through the use of actionscript.  Frankly, I've created flash
> sites that load more quickly than the equivalent HTML sites I created, due
> to good use of optimization, streaming, & content loading.  Not to mention
> the ability to display high quality vector art, which is a hell of a lot
> smaller than it's gif equivalent.
> 
> Sorry, hope I don't seem like I'm on a soapbox, but I LOVE flash.
> 
> Drew
> 
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