On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:27:36 +0000 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and a site our company designed: > http://www.nymph1.net > > Nice flash elements and the site is totally navigable with a text > based browser too. Our client wanted to sell his guiding services > online and he wanted a site that stood apart from his competitors. His > site does that. Flash can be replaced by animated gif's but they are > larger and load slower - but they do not require a plugin. Ahhh > tradeoff's. I am a hardcore open standards/source zealot but working > in the real world of web development means using tools I'd rather not > sometimes. Until we have something better (like animated PNG's or > similar) this will continue to happen. Some like flashy sites, some > just want the content. Taken to the extreme, why not have courier font > point size 12 for all web pages? Because it would be u-g-l-y, on that > I'm pretty sure we can all agree. Therefore the amount of "flashiness" > is just a matter of degree isn't it? To each his own I guess. I can't > wait till the OSS community finishes building web development tools to > rival the proprietary ones. Sadly, there is a ways to go yet. hey i remember going in to sign up with plains.co.nz many years ago when i forst got the net. the proprietor gleefully showed me that he had discovered the <blink> tag in netscrape, and was able to make text flash on and off. bloody annoying, uncontrollable blink rate. by the way he blink tag was a netscape only html tag - MS weren't the first to screw with standards. > > Oh yeah, by the way, do you want your site to NOT be found by search > engines? Build it all in flash then! =) Flash elements are ok used in > moderation but the surest way to kill search engine rankings is to use > all flash. > > My .002c worth. > > Cheers > > Jason > > Chad wrote: > > >>>Yes, and used sensibly Shockwave is cool/useful/whatever, at least > >thats>>my opinion. > >>> > >>> > >>I have yet to see a site where using shockwave/flash (is there a > >>difference?) has improved navigation, or has been used beneficially > >>with something that wouldn't have been possible without. I have > >however>seen many sites which are completely unusable because of it. > >> > >> > > > >http://www.dxinvisiblewar.com/ > >Is a rather nice Flash/shockwave only site not sure if it's an > >improvement on what can be done by HTML once you take into account > >the size of it but is nice in a rather fancy, flashy kind of way (if > >you have broadband and a fast pc that is). And I doubt that any thing > >similar could be produced with out using Flash or Shockwave. > > > >Chad > > > > > > > > > >
