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| Author | Content |
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| dave Feb 26, 2004 5:39 AM EDT |
What's up with that enormous flash ad for the MSN toolbar? I won't be linking to about.com in anymore stories again, that's for sure. :( dave |
| runen Feb 26, 2004 6:07 AM EDT |
Why install Flash at all. Besides some lame games, what other than banner ads are Flash used for.. sure some sites require Flash like cocacola.com, but who cares? If some real-value site depends on the presence of flash on the client machine then they deserve a good spanking if you ask me ;-) |
| dave Feb 26, 2004 6:11 AM EDT |
I have flash because I do a lot of gardening work online, and many gardening sites have flash for presentations (which is actually quite nice and useful. Flash is excellent for multimedia presentations, which you would find in the gardening world). Maybe I should setup a different profile with Firefox that has flash, and use it for my gardening site work, and then Firefox sans flash the rest of the time... maybe... dave |
| greensky Feb 26, 2004 7:38 AM EDT |
If you use firebird get that plugin that let's you click to play a flash presentation. I wish that you could do that in Galeon. |
| dave Feb 26, 2004 7:53 AM EDT |
Which plugin is that? |
| greensky Feb 26, 2004 8:11 AM EDT |
Flash Click To View http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#flashclick |
| dave Feb 26, 2004 8:19 AM EDT |
Happy happy! I installed it and the flash is gone. Ahh I love Firefox with its extensions. :-) Thanks for the tip! dave |
| beejay54 Feb 26, 2004 8:08 PM EDT |
Flash is much more then banner ads and games. Flash is essential. And yeah I must admit I'm a little bias as a multimedia designer. But I feel that it's an excellent platform for those desiring consistency on the web. Granted, some good DHTML will do the trick w/ animation, but somehow I doubt that even the best designers are gearing their raw code to work flawlessly on my linux box. As a designer you are always safe with flash, its small, clean, and code is self contained. You would actually be suprised as to how much of your day to day web digest is done in flash. |
| jhorner Feb 27, 2004 6:17 AM EDT |
Yes, I agree Dave. Please don't link to about.com again. This single story came in my lxer email newsletter this morning, and I was quite dismayed not only by the flash animation, but also by the lack of interesting content. |
| dave Feb 27, 2004 6:19 AM EDT |
You won't see it happen again, jhorner. :) |
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