EightNineThree said:
Can you cite sources that show a *huge* audience that does _not_ prefer
"interactive fun sites"?
It would seem to be self-evident that there's plenty of people surfing for
info *and* entertainment, it's not just one or the other.
Flash has it's place & it's uses, many music group sites use it to present
their music & imagery in a way best suited to the MTV crowd they're
targeting. Many music fans don't want static, text only sites, they're
boring & don't reflect the high-energy, rock & roll *entertainment*
qualities the group wants to put across.
http://www.rush.com is, except for the first page, entirely done in Flash, &
it's a hell of an entertaining & informative site, reflecting the band &
it's long history quite well, one can get lost in there for hours listening
& watching & *interacting*. Of course if you don't have flash or have it
disabled the point is moot, but again, it's a users *choice* to do so.
Flash isn't going to go away, if anything it's going to become more & more a
part of the net as more people switch to broadband, because there's things
you can do with it that you simply cannot do in html, but as I said up
there, it has it's place and it's uses. The challenge is in using it well
and appropriately, if it's used at all.
For people to be all snobby about it seems silly to me, there's plenty of
room for html *and* flash designers, and combinations thereof.
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