this gut is satan
1 The “Back” button does not work. If you navigate within a Flash object, the standard backtracking method takes you out of the multimedia object and not, as expected, to the previous state.
2 Link colors don’t work. Given this, you cannot easily see where you’ve been and which links you’ve yet to visit. This lack of orientation creates navigational confusion.
3 The “Make text bigger/smaller” button does not work. Users are thus forced to read text in the designer-specified font size, which is almost always too small since designers tend to have excellent vision.
4 Flash reduces accessibility for users with disabilities.
The “Find in page” feature does not work. In general, Flash integrates poorly with search.
5 Internationalization and localization is complicated. Local websites must enlist a Flash professional to translate content. Also, text that moves is harder to read for users who lack fluency in the language.
- Who care’s!?!?!
- “navigational confusion” JAH With Old people that can’t remember where they clicked half a second ago.
- Yep we do have exsilent vision. But you don’t buy glasses ffs.
- http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/searchengines.htm Yes THere is a solution. But why would you mind not finding flash site’s you hate them wirte!!! lamo.
- Not all text that moves is hard to read get glasses. ow yea U suck.
THis Guys hasn’t been going to quality site’s. And that text is hard to read is BS. becuase pixel fonts are easy to read write?
who is this guy!
i told you, hes satan incarnate.
i didnt even read most of the crap on that link… made me sad…
then the rage began to boil up inside me and i googled for his home address… ill be paying him a visit… muhahahaha
I have alreaddy send an e-mail. What a lamo. Ok i admit. not all flashsite’s are cool and smooth and crispy look’n But come on. 99% That;s just lame
there is a script to get the back button working in flash its on colin moocks site so thats an issue thats been fixed but not many people practice it, as for the make text bigger thing thats what zoom in is for rotflmao
Is that what you were trying to say phil?
Yeah, this guy clearly hasn’t seen many good flash sites. However, I do agree that flash intros are pointless no matter how good. Mind you, there is quite a bit of crap out there.
sadly enough, i have to agree about intros being crap. thats still a big generalization, but usually true…
there is alot of crap out there… but he said 99%. maybe he’s not satan incarnate, but he’s certainly not nephew. son or brother perhaps…
some redeeming points, but its too late for me to call off my squad of spandex-ninja-assasins. theyve already been dispathced and are en route to to objective bravo where they will eliminate the great blasphemer.
I agree with Jakob. I can’t stand flash intros and I can barely tolerate all Flash sites 
There is only so much cool transitions you can place in an animation - and all of them have been done, repeated, resurrected, buried, and re-used to death.
It all depends from which point you look at things. Flash is mainly a presentation tool. But he has approached it more from the Internet-Hypertext idea and websites being information resources. Imagine Kirupa.com being fully flash. I’m not saying it’s not possible, but it would take more work and resources to do that.
I also agree with the “Find in page” thing. I just love using this function and the fact that it’s not available in Flash is sad…
