On Sep 3, 8:52*am, Travis Newbury <travisnewb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 5:29*am, Irina Rempt <ir...@valdyas.org> wrote:
>
> > Also, I already know what flash can do, and I prefer it not to do it to me.
>
> I believe one of the main problems Flash has with it's reputation is
> that many people, like yourself, believe that this site is an example
> of what Flash can do.
>
> This page demonstrates a very small subset of Flash's capabilities.
Flash suffers from the reputation it had, especially for early
versions. The animation was often crude, it was often autostarted, and
it often could not be turned off. Then it was usually used for ads.
While I and likely most who visit this group dislike this sort of
thing, the hard-sell approach is still apparently live and well in
some circles. There are still plenty of loud, fast talking, often
nearly screaming people on US TV trying to get you to buy something,
and apparently they sell things, because the cost of national TV ads
is very high.
With the introduction of the flv (flash video) and use of flv/swf
files a few versions ago, flash became capable of video as good as
Microsoft, Real, QT etc formats. If you will look at the web sites of
many of the largest US TV and cable news sources you will find that
many are now using flv/swf for news content video and not just ads.
The reason for this is very simple. A flash player is installed on
more computers than any of the earlier video formats mentioned. Also
the WMP, which at one time was the main video player, can now be
installed only on Windows XP or Vista for the most recent 2 versions -
WMP 10 and 11.
You can perhaps equal the bad taste and annoyance of bad flash using
just some html, css, and JavaScript - dhtml. This is not now used
nearly as much as flash because it usually takes much more time to
write the code, and one must have a very good knowledge of Javascript.
To prove my point, you might like to visit hell. Be warned that this
page has autostarted sound (if you have WMP installed) and flashing
visual effects that might not be suitable for those with epilepsyThe
sound is repeated 10000 times. I do take mercy on you and provide a
WMP control panel that lets you turn the sound off. If this does not
prove the point, I would like to know the url of a flash video that is
more annoying. The url for hell is
http://cwdjr.net/flash/hell.html .