Too bad advertisers abuse the technology so much that people go looking for countermeasures. Not smart.
panic
10:29 pm on Dec 22, 2003 (gmt 0)
Flash is, and always has been, useless.
HughMungus
11:58 pm on Dec 22, 2003 (gmt 0)
I wouldn't call it useless -- it has some good uses. But an ad that continues to play forever is not a good use.
panic
12:08 am on Dec 23, 2003 (gmt 0)
I wouldn't call it useless -- it has some good uses.
Name one.
Jon_King
1:23 am on Dec 23, 2003 (gmt 0)
To get you to say it's useless. :)
panic
1:27 am on Dec 23, 2003 (gmt 0)
To get you to say it's useless. :)
And that's what you call useful?
HughMungus
3:18 am on Dec 23, 2003 (gmt 0)
Name one.
Animation, video, ads -- as long as they don't play repeatedly forever and ever.
tedster
6:22 am on Dec 23, 2003 (gmt 0)
I'm with you, Hugh. There are things Flash can do well that no other current technology can match. And good Flash development can be quite lucrative for the developer as well as the client who deploys it well.
Jon_King
8:12 pm on Dec 23, 2003 (gmt 0)
Just kidding there Panic... It's obvious there are things this software does that people like.
Are you proficient in Flash so to speak to its effectiveness as a tool for web development?
panic
8:58 pm on Dec 23, 2003 (gmt 0)
Are you proficient in Flash so to speak to its effectiveness as a tool for web development?
Unfortunately, I am. I actually wasted my time learning Flash, until I realized that there's not too many unique things you can do with Flash that you can't do with Perl, PHP, etc.