korkus2000 - 5:12 pm on Nov 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

A lot has been said about Flash. There are many viewpoints about its usefulness on the net. I thought I would make one central post as reference on what is good and bad about this tool.

Search Engines
Macromedia released a search engine SDK to help engines search Flash content.
[macromedia.com...]

Fast seems to be the first engine to index all flash content.
[webmasterworld.com...]

Google will only index anything that looks like a URL within the flash file.
[webmasterworld.com...]

Inktomi can’t really do anything with Flash so they may take your DMOZ description.
[webmasterworld.com...]

Altavista, Teoma, Ask Jeeves, and Wisenut can’t see it and needs html on the page.
[webmasterworld.com...]
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Pros and Cons
Feelings about “All Flash” Sites.
[webmasterworld.com...]

Promoting an “All Flash” site
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Good use of Flash
[webmasterworld.com...]

Good business use of Flash
[webmasterworld.com...]

What irritates users.
[webmasterworld.com...]

People who like Flash
[webmasterworld.com...]

General feelings about Flash from webmasters.
Part 1
[webmasterworld.com...]
Part 2
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Usability and Flash.
[flazoom.com...]

Jakob Nielson
[webmasterworld.com...]
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Accessibility Praise For Flash
[webmasterworld.com...]

Market Penetration.
[webmasterworld.com...]

Using splash pages
[webmasterworld.com...]
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Embedded Flash vs. 100% Flash
[webmasterworld.com...]

How To
Loading Page
[webmasterworld.com...]

Printing Flash
[webmasterworld.com...]

Tutorials
[webmasterworld.com...]

Flash navigation and frames.
[webmasterworld.com...]

Exporting Flash to a gif
[webmasterworld.com...]

Premade Flash files/templates
[webmasterworld.com...]

Stopping Flash auto install
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Uninstalling Flash
[webmasterworld.com...]