Flash is Evil

4 Responses to Flash is Evil

1. Karen in Wichita says:

   February 3, 2007 at 11:55 pm

   Heh. The little designed-by link on the Reasoning page goes to a site that comes up as a blank white page for me. (Go Privoxy go!)

   You don’t have to be Flash to be evil, though. I like to send companies screencaps of what their site looks like in Lynx. I particularly like Hancock Fabrics, who send[s] out HTML-only emails (yes, I’m signed up for “text-only”… it worked *once*) with the only non-embedded text a link that says “If you can’t read this, click here.” Follow that link, it goes to a web-based version of the exact same exclusively-image-with-no-labels-or-alts page, right down to the “If you can’t read this, click here” link as the only readable text. Usability ya us.
2. Tim Hall says:

   February 4, 2007 at 12:08 am

   For a completely different bad browsing experience, try to read http://www.mostly-autumn.com/ on a 600×800 monitor. Click on ‘News’ for the sort of thing that gives frames a bad name, big time.

   I don’t like sites where I have to cut and paste into a text editor to read things.
3. Paul says:

   February 4, 2007 at 12:21 am

   I don’t know about evil but Flash websites certainly annoy the hell out of me.

   I don’t think I’m particularly impatient, so maybe someone should explain to the marketing types that insist on these things that, if you leave people looking at some ‘loading’ icon for more than a couple of seconds, no-one is going to hang around long enough to see your “high impact presentation”.
4. Serdar says:

   February 4, 2007 at 2:35 pm

   I cannot agree more. I despise Flash as a substitute for HTML. Nice way to break bookmarking, and just about every other web navigation standard.