Bad Flash!! No, wait: good Flash!! Er, ma-aaauuuugh!!!!!!!!!
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- ZDNet News article - Flash: Easy target for gaudy graphics
- Egregious design idiocy. Bandwidth drunkenness. Flash is taking it on the chin again — or, more appropriately, the designers who (over)use Flash are being publicly keelhauled. We've all seen sites done using Flash. The ubiquitous splash pages (which good ol'; Microsoft started, rot their raddled sourcecode), the online movies, games, and just plain weird things. Flash can be used well — like in the NFL's web site, where their navigation is a quick-loading Flash file — but too often we're forced to wade through poor uses of the tool just to get to a small nugget of information.
There is no “Flash vs. usability” war. There is a “bad use of Flash vs. usability” battle, much in the same way that there is a “bad HTML coding vs. accessibility” battle. What sites have you seen that make good use of Flash? What do you consider good use of Flash? Add your opinions and links that display what you think is a good use of Flash or Shockwave. I personally loathe the track record of Flash usage online, but there are sites that use it well (yes, Virginia, even in movie form).
So before some kind of senseless boom slams down...why not educate everyone? Both designers and site users alike? Otherwise, Flash will shortly go the way of frames: everyone is afraid to use it because it has such a bad rap. It would be shameful to let this kind of potential be squandered.
Keywords: | usability | Flash | design |
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