Re: FLASH: Posted without permission Now Does Flash suck

[Paul]

Agreed


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From: "Kevin Jackson" <kjacksontriskelian [dot] com>

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Posted without permission Now Does Flash suck

>Date: Tue, Sep 28, 1999, 6:02 pm

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> I've been following this thread and find it interesting that many are

> complaining that the sky is falling because of the views of a few critics.

> FLASH will not make a site good or bad. The content and the creator will do

> that. You see people rip FLASH sites in here all the time that if you showed

> to most people they would go crazy for.

>

> 1)    We have seen a lot of sites so it takes more to impress us.

> 2)    The critics at these sites have opinions. Nothing more. As a designer

> take the part that makes sense, address it and make a better site

> 3)    If a Flash site doesn't change it is no different than an old magazine

> (or for that matter most HTML sites) Who does want to see the same things

> over and over. Give them a skip button. Change the content. Give them a

> reason to watch and they will.

> 4)    You said "Sad to say, I have read the magazine which was given to me

> by one of the radio stations I'm doing and I agree with the arguments about

> flash, graphics and marketing." You didn't say what they said. Regardless

> see point number 2.

> 5)   Then you said, "People are tired of Flash.  I hear it over and over and

> over again how tired people are of Flash." I have never met anyone who has

> said after seeing any Flash page I showed them that it didn't look as good

> as HTML. Most people are really excited by it.

>

> I think we are hearing from a lot of jaded people. They are probably the

> same type that thought that TV and Moving Pictures were gimmicks and not

> "real"  communication mediums. Flash and the Web will continue to evolve and

> things will get to be clich�'s but I don't see people choosing lifeless

> technology to the interactive experience which Flash can be.

>

> Kevin Jackson

> Triskelian Design

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kjacksontriskelian [dot] com

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> BTW, many of the people who criticize Flash probably like the "creative,

> artistic sites" on the web. I often find these the least user friendly sites

> on the net and end up thinking why bother. They are generally loved by the

> same type of people who created them. They are like the art films that play

> in the small theatres to rave critical reviews while the masses of people go

> to All-Star Wrestling. I think you can aim somewhere in between and develop

> good content. (As far from Wrestling as possible, I hope)

>

> As Barnum once said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the

> intelligence of the American public." I think some of these people think too

> much  instead of asking other people their opinion.

>

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