Why I hate Flash

Why <i>I</i> hate Flash: outside of youtube, 95% of all Flash content is just advertisement - including flashy corporate home pages. Very little actually affords any utility to <i>me</i>.<p>Flashblock is by far the most valuable Firefox extension that I use.

Yea... think of anybody trying to create a new web-enabled hardware. In addition of getting a browser working right, they would be at Adobe's mercy for providing a flash plug in for it. Now imagine if Silverlight becomes hot together with JavaFX. How many private corporate interests will you have to deal with to support your platform then? Because you'll need A LOT of runtime support to be a useful web surfing tool. Yet another obstacle towards truly mobile web.<p>Flash, Silverlight, and other proprietary "extenders" all need to be replaced with extended <i>standard</i> CSS/JS/XML solution, supported by all browsers out of the box.

I am so sick of flash haters. Flash, like anything else can be used to create a horrible site. But it can create some kick-ass sites as well.<p>I disagree with half of the column.<p>I use swfadress and index not only my pages in google but my assets. also each can have a seperate url for bookmarking.<p>You can copy and past any text on a flash site, if the designer wants you to. its as simple as pressing a button when designing the site.<p>If you want to hate flash for a few badly designed sites, answer these questions:<p>How many times have you had to hack css or html to work cross browser?<p>Bad design ---&#62; sparkles following your mouse!!!<p>i can pick on anything that i disagree with, but flash is popular because it works, is eye catching and small.<p>Flash's main problem is being easy enough for a novice to pick up and create a garbage site.

"Last fall, I quoted on a website contract for our city college"<p>You don't have to read past that first sentence to realize that this is heavily biased opinion from a person who earns his living doing web design. Many of the issues are completely independent of whether or not flash is used -- like improperly configured domains, accessibility, background music, rest interfaces. With a little creativity you can solve most of the issues on that site.

I'm not the grammar-nazi type, but I have this problem where when people use the word "literally" I assume they are not being metaphorical.<p>"it's literally a scrollbar orgy"<p>Thanks for that image.

One of the comments on that page ("Jeremy") kept going off on how terrible YouTube is: 'Obviously it was forced on them by the giant failure "YouTube".' What is he talking about? I thought YouTube was extremely successful, so much so that Google bought them out?

The lack of cut and paste annoys me greatly (from the user's perspective when viewing a webpage)

The article is about why he hate that particular Flash website, not Flash.<p>Flash is THE best way to deliver heavy weight rich internet applications on web.<p>With Javascript, you would:<p>if(ie 5){ //do stuff.. }else if(ie 6){ //do stuff.. }else if(ie 7){ //do stuff.. }else if (IE generic fail edition){ //do stuff.. }else if(Opera){ //do stuff.. }else if(Safari){ //do stuff.. }else { // do stuff }<p>With Flash you would just "do stuff"..<p>Now, this doesnt mean Flash is better than Javascript.But when delivering heavy weight RIAs, its better to stick on to Flash.Why overload client side with untargeted code?

Why is this poorly written article getting front page attention? Oh, because the internet reads headlines... forget the important substance or in this case, lack there of.

Who doesn't?<p>Seriously, flash is only good for two things:<p>- Embedding movies and animations<p>- Delivering Internet games<p>Both of these things can usually be done without flash. Doing anything else with flash does positive harm to the usability of the site. If all your site does is provide information, don't use flash. I shouldn't have to have some proprietary, third-party plugin to read text or view simple images. In the long run, it will be you who loses out.

I can't read French, it is true and so my ability to evaluate certain aspects of the site are compromised, but as an ad piece I do find it compelling to be honest.

If you are creating a site that has a lot streaming audio or video the embedded player must be flash, just as youtube does! There is no other way in this instance! 99% of net users use flash to enjoy audio and video through their browser.<p>A entire site in flash... well that does suck!