Daniel Robinson of IT Week says Flash is "the absolute bane of the internet"...

Posted At : February 28, 2007 1:23 PM | Posted By : Jeff
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It appears that people over at IT Week like to make uninformed decisions based on a limited number of examples. Flash is not the "bane of the internet". If anything Flash enables a richer internet experience. I do admit that there are some that misuse Flash and give it a bad name, but it is easy to not go to sites that use Flash like that. It is also easy to block flash ads and regular graphical ads all together with filters like Firefox's AdBlocker.

To say things like:

"I have come to regard Flash as the absolute bane of the internet. The technology's chief purpose seems to be to annoy the hell out of anyone surfing the web. Is there actually a bona fide purpose for Flash, other than creating endless animated adverts to ambush the unwary? If there is, I think we should be told about it."

I think that you Daniel Robinson are completely uninformed on Flash and you are the last person in the world that should be writing about it. What experience do you have except for poking around on the web for a few minutes to get ready to write your article? If you did research you would know that you do have control over what advertisements you see online. You also have control over what websites you go to. If a website annoys you, don't buy their products.

Source: http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2184157/flash-needs-content-kill-switch

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We've all made the mistake of ranting about something and posting it before sitting back to consider, "I'm I coming off as an ignorant jerk?" So in that I can't give any blame other than he's human.

That aside, my biggest peeve with comments such as this is that DHTML and animated GIFs are just as much to blame as Flash - except for audio/video abuses.

So, it's the people who make them. Not the technology. It's like the saying, "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." But in this case it's, "Flash doesn't irritate people. Web producers irritate people."

# Posted By oz | 3/1/07 12:52 PM

Flash allows you to share video online without worrying about codecs and if someone has Windows Media Player, or built a fully blown video selector. You can also play make a MP3 player for podcasts or built a selector. You can also build Multiplayer Games and record video from someones web cam if they so choose. There are some good things about Flash, sure its used for annoying ads that play audio or bounce all over the place but it's all in the use of it.

# Posted By flash developer | 3/2/07 6:05 AM

I just don't like the way he singles out a single technology like Flash, which in my opinion is one of the best things that has happened to the web. I think he should have been a little bit more broad in his attack and included things that you said like gifs and dhtml.

I also thought it was funny that there were advertisements all over the IT Week page, most of which were flashing, even though they were only animated gifs.

# Posted By Jeff | 3/5/07 10:51 AM

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Daniel Robinson of IT Week says Flash is "the absolute bane of the internet"...