Good article on Flash / Open Source / etc....

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Bradley Miller <bradmiller at dslonramp.com>:

> If it wasn't for graphics and ease of use, the Internet wouldn't be where 
> it is now.  Period.  I can see the next generation of web sites that use 
> capabilities beyond javascript/HTML/etc.... and it has to run on something,

> and that something is Flash.   Flash isn't all about moving trinkets and 
> eye candy . . . it's a very sophisticated application language that happens

Bull.  Flash is dancing spam.  Flash is the <BLINK> tag of the new century.

There is no useful information conveyed by 99% of the animation on web pages 
today.  I think back to when Blair Lake was the Big Deal Internet Advertising 
Agency in KC, back when advertising on the web was just starting.  They did a 
splash page for their site that had a drop of water hitting a pool (lake, get 
it?) and ripples going out.  People everywhere were going to their site to look 
at the "cool graphics".  Try to find Blair Lake today.

Try to remember one thing: content.  The web is about content.  You can do 
dancing spam and flash animation all you want, but once people have seen it 
ONCE, they're done.  What will keep your site alive is content, not Flash.

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