RE: FLASH: FLASH 99% BAD

[Fortune Elkins]

hiya david & shawn!


um, donning my asbestos suite --- i like this article by jakob nielson. it's

a gonna be a great positive.


i often run into flash haters when i design sites here for my employer. it's

usually something like "i don't want that junk on my site." when you ask

people why they hate flash, they will usually respond with "eye-candy

timewaster." their arguments are rarely as thought out as jakob's. in fact,

i'll probably start giving this article out to project managers.


then what i'll do is make a flash-enabled site design that meets as many of

his objections as possible. then i'll explain why the others aren't

relevant, or ask the project manager to list his priorities, and show how

jakob's objections deal with things that are a low-priority to the project

manager. 


for example, search. our site uses htdig, which indexes comments. so i

always have flash spit out the text, and the user can find the page, load

the correct movie, and see the content. so that works well enough to handle

that objection. as for the major search engines, they can be dealt with too.


since i can meet *most* of jakob's objections in my use of flash, and the

remaining objections tend to be lower-priority to the project manager, i can

let my project managers *convince themselves* that flash is actually

appropriate and will add value.


esp. now in flash 5 that we can load external rich-text files, i can many

times argue that a flash content page is smaller, will download faster, and

is less of a maintenance problem than a regular 40k html page.


in short, i think this article will help me sell a lot of flash around here!


the glass is *really* half-full,


fortune


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