Re: UKNM: RE: UKNM Digest V1 #220

[Clay Shirky]

> Actually, we put in an enormous amount of research on this issue,

> unsurprisingly.


Which makes it all the more surprising that you came to the wrong

answer.


> Using Flash is a trade-off . . .however, we're using Flash not "for effect"

> but to give our customers some serious "value-add" features. 


Look at your rhetoric here - trade-off, value-add. That is at odds

with what you are actually doing. If there is a trade-off to be made,

it is the _user_ and not you who should be making it. Let *me* decide

if I want access to Flash, and let *me* decide if I consider it a

value-add. Never forget that I dial in using Freeserve and am watching

my phone bill, and that I am unbelievably impatient, and never *ever*

forget that I am the one with the money in this equation.


I predict that within three months of launch you will have a non-Flash

version of the site, once you see how few users have the patience for

a Flash download. You could save yoruself a pile of trouble by

starting work on it now.


-clay 

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