On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Flash is a very bloated plugin distributed by Macromedia.
Flash 4 Plugin for Linux Netscape is 267K. Flash 5 Plugin for Linux Netscape is 756K. Whether either, both or neither of those falls into one's definition of "bloated" is strictly a subjective call. > I think it works only with Windows browsers. Nope. Flash, like JS, is WAY overused. There's a tendency for new web programmers to use every gimmick there is, in some kind of quest to have the "coolest" site on the web. They have somehow decided that a dancing noisy site somehow equates to a "good" site. Unfortunately, web courses neglect to teach what makes a site good. They only teach what makes a site "snazzy." One of the worst sites I've ever been remotely connected with uses JS and shock for the simplest things. Shock just to display the business address???? I commented on it to the guy who would have the most to lose from such a bad site, and his response was, "It's a site though. Any site is better than no site." Arghh! > You have to keep upgrading > to the latest and greatest version of the plugin so that it will > slow your system down I don't find that Flash 5 slows my system down at all... perhaps the Windows version would though. > Most of us > on this mailing list would of course prefer to just have fast > access to information and we would rather forego the glitz because You could just leave it at that. ;-) - Steve
