Re: UKNM: Flash Corporate User Statistics

[Chris Heathcote]

on 1/12/00 10:51 am,

Sharon [dot] BennettSAAConsultants [dot] com

 wrote:


> I'm a web designer at an e-business software solutions company.

> Currently, we cannot use Flash technology on our site, as the security

> dept will not let it through our firewall due to (supposed) security

> issues.  I disagree with this and I am currently writing a report

> outlining why I think we should reconsider this guideline.  Our website is

> focused toward a corporate audience


<deep breath>


I'll get to security in a minute, but consider this: if you have such a

block, how many other companies do as well? What do you want to do that

can't be done in HTML? The only decent use for Flash is long animations (as

these are smaller than the corresponding animated GIFs), and maybe some

immediate interaction (arcade style games). Does a corporate site need that?

Getting real information to people as quickly as possible should be your

main concern.


As for security, I can't see any problems with Flash files. The latest

shockwave files can talk to servers, but I think it operates in a sandbox. I

think it's some BOFH in your IT department trying to conserve a bit of

bandwidth.


C.

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