{"id":1626,"date":"2006-08-28T01:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/whats-wrong-with-flash\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T01:38:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T08:38:14","slug":"whats-wrong-with-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/whats-wrong-with-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s wrong with flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is of course nothing wrong with flash. Just that I don&#8217;t want to do it.<br \/>\nHere are my reasons why I don&#8217;t waste any clock cycles on it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s allot of work to learn a system like flash to do it really right. I don&#8217;t invest that kind of time into a format that is owned by one company. I would become <strike>Macromedia&#8217;s<\/strike> Adobes bitch if I would do so.\n<\/li>\n<li>Search engines ignore flash. Since more than seventy percent of all internet traffic get directed by google and friends those sites are simply sit idle.\n<\/li>\n<li>Flash content can&#8217;t be linked to. The link is to the internet what rails are to railroads. You can not directly link to a item in flash. Or if you can, nobody knows how to do that.<br \/>\nAll you can do is to post the link to the start page and then describe how to get where you wanted\n<\/li>\n<li>Flash navigation can be made unique and creative.Imagine a car maker would make a car with a &#8216;creative gear box switching interface&#8217;. And, only deploy this fancy model in the rental car market.\n<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have enough tatoo&#8217;s. Flash designers seem to be mostly extroverted sculptors that want to part take in this internet thing. There is nothing wrong with that, as long I don&#8217;t have to deal and compete with them.\n<\/li>\n<li>money, it costs money, but hardly makes any. 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