Re: FLASH: Re: Cancer

[Brian]

One more thing:


Any of the latest (and some not-so-latest) browser versions already sport

the Flash plug-in, so what's the problem? Anyone who doesn't go and DL their

FREE new browser version is just a twit...


-Brian Matthews



> About this paragraph in the Flashzoom article:

>

> >When Flash first hit the web (back when it was called Future Splash) it

was

>> all about streaming and small file sizes. You could design a Flash menu

that

>> would load faster than a bunch of JavaScript rollover GIF files, and it

>> would stream in. Now, four years later, no one understands the art of

>> streaming in their content. Flash designers would rather make their

visitor

>> wait for a 100k+ download than learn how to keep their files within the

>> download stream. Flash designers are also proclaiming the death of HTML

like

>> something was wrong with it. HTML is still a far better medium for

content

>> on the web than Flash will ever be. Someone looking for information with

a

>> search engine is not going to find what they need on one of Kioken's

Flash

>> sites because you can not search Flash.<


> You don't have to "search Flash".

> Excuse me, but doesn't this person know that you still have to use HTML

code

> to tell the browsers what to do with the .SWF file (I do on my site...)?

> Hasn't he/she heard of METATAGS and KEYWORDS that can be inserted into the

> HTML code to your heart's content to help search engines? Can't the

creator

> of a particular site determine a list of keywords that likely reflect the

> NECESSARY items of interest on their site?




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