[cfaussie] Re: Is CF Programming Becoming Dieing A Slow Death ??

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:13:52 -0700

>What about SEO? Flash is still unsearchable as far as the web is concerned.

Exactly flash has some basic meta tags these days (I'm led to believe) but search engines punish flash sites hard.


> but if you built an application in HTML an Flash and ran
>them side by side you will no doubt find that orders would be the same;

Absolute non sense, 1 of my house mates I used to live with works for a company that gets 100% of customers from search engines (including search engine advertising),
For every $100 the company turns over, $90 profit is made once you take out wages hosting etc.
If this companies site was made in flash it would get no greater then 1/10 the same search engine referrals, the sites content is HTML and continually updated and all new content is indexed by google daily.

I think this is a good example that shows your above statement is incorrect.
Flash has a place in the world, but at present day it isn't a HTML replacement, my comp runs fine with 30 tabs open, if I had 30 tabs open all running an instance of the flash player, it wouldn't be so smooth.

less then 50% of the world have broadband and in 10 years time many country's will still be running dial up, when I go to a news site on a dial up connection, I open 10 tabs and they are all loaded in under 30 seconds,
if I loaded 10 flash sites on dial up I'd put in for annual leave then come back when its loaded.

I also don't believe flash is faster to develop, in some cases it would be, but not always.
Most of a projects cost comes from its up-keep, html CMS systems are more abundant and easier for non programmers to use.

Also if you make one site in HTML and then want 10 very similar but different looking sites, you can simply copy and paste the code then edit 1 CSS file.

I spend most of my *personal* net time surfing news sites, if the news site was all flash, I'd stop going there, any flash banner ads I block straight away.

I like some flash sites, but prefer most sites to be html.

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