tenerifejim - 11:22 am on Jul 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Newspapers, magazines, books, brochures, reports, discussions and spreadsheets have never relied on animation to make their point.

Please explain the relevance of identitfying media which is not capable of offering animation. Particularly as you failed to mention TV, Cinema, DVD, Powerpoint presentations and computer games.

The biggest con of flash is that it is an invention waiting for necessity to mother it.

I used flash as a distributed application at British Airways because it runs faster and is easier to program graphically than Java Applets.

I use it for corporate intranet sites to provide graphical demonstrations on machines that are too small or don't have licenses for Powerpoint.

I work in Sales, a wow factor is a wow factor. Flash is flashy.

Look,

Flash is an animation tool, if you don't like animations don't watch Shrek 2.

Here are many other cons with Flash:

It doesn't make my coffee
It can't drive me to the aiport
It is rubbish at swimming
It isn't very good at fitting in at cocktail parties