RE: FLASH: W3C opinion of flash

[Jason Bouwmeester]

Software vendors being who? As for the issues... (a)it can be made

selectable (text anyways), (b)yeah it is non-indexable but isn't there ways

around that? and (c) it can be URL-able on a frame to frame basis but what a

pain in the @$$ hehe...


Don't worry Mark, I know yer just the messenger!


jb


-----Original Message-----

From: Mark Hirst [

Mark [dot] Hirsthalogen [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:Mark [dot] Hirsthalogen [dot] co [dot] uk)

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Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:15 AM

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'flasherchinwag [dot] com

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Subject: FLASH: W3C opinion of flash



Hiya all, just logged back on after being away for about a month.  Just came

accross something interesting, what do ya'll reckon.


A work collegue recently participated in a face-to-face meeting

of the CSS Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and

this was one of the topics on discussion.


   "More and more members of the W3C express their concern about Flash.

   Flash is invading the web and even if it allows big steps in design

   and ergo, it is also (a) non selectable (b) non indexable (c) non

   URL-able on a frame-per-frame basis.

   The W3C has this week in Amsterdam one its annual big

   meetings with all members' representatives and some of them and

   this point will surely be on the table at some time.

   On the other hand, the SVG plug-in from Adobe allows very powerful

   vector graphics in XML and most software vendors want to push that

   technology instead of Flash."


Chow for now - Mark



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