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Monday, May 07, 2007

Top Ten Reasons Why Flash Sucks

Marc explains his anti-Flash reasoning

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Obviously you have never created apps with nor flash nor actionscript. Only point 8., and 6. can be said to be flash shortage as technology. All other is simply programmer lack of programming skills.
Creating flash apps requires more knowledge and programming expierence than plain old HTML, CSS or PHP and thus it provides more powerfull way to user interaction. You can not say - flash technology sucks - simply because programmer using it don’t know how to use it.
And yes, you CAN bookmark URL’s in flash, and yes - you CAN copy/paste text in flash (of course programmer has an option to disable it if client thinks it is neccesary).
Flash is like ajax, it reloads only regions needed, and if properly used it is faster than - for example - this php page.
Flash/flex apps HAS a common interface (buttons, checkboxes, dropdown boxes, and lots more). If programmer does’n use it - well it’s programmers fault. Just as in HTML, you could put bunch of images and link them as buttons - and it will not be a common interface.
Your top one reason why flash sucks ir - no user benifit. There has been number of situations in my life where flash taked user expierence to the next level. For example for inssurance company, filling CASKO and MTPL claims users can now add an exact description on how accident happened. They can draw cars and through created animation show, what really happened.

Now, in analogy - don’t give laser weapons to monkeys.

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