On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:59:44PM -0700, Jason LaRiviere wrote: > > Flash has a place on the web, just like any other rich media format. It > should be used responsibly, as semantically as possible, and degrade > nicely for those who care not to use it. I make every effort to use it > within these guidelines, and present them as gospel to my clients. Many > (most?) modern web developers do too, except for the ones at a Flex > conference who still think drawing entire websites in Flash is a good > idea. Shame on them, but they are a dying breed.
Flash has one huge technical benefit. There are a number of sites that generate large amounts of dynamic images. Doing this in a fast and efficient manner requires an enormous amount of computing resources. Using flash pushes that work out to the client where it can be rendered on their own system. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/
