FLASH: Re:FLASH 99% BAD

[John Olson]

>It is more flexible than HTML and if people are to stupid not to 

>realise they are viewing Flash and that the browser buttons do not

>work the way they do it HTML I do not think I want them on my site. 

>Most visual artists like painters that I have worked with love the 

>zoom feature.


That is a very arrogant statement.  The pure fact is that the users 

range from total novices to power-users.  And I find it hard to 

believe that you can expect  your user to know what kind of file is 

behind your site. (useless your site resembles the flash tutorials).


What useit.com and asktog.com try to do (IMHO) is make the designer 

aware of these usability issues. Many of articles point out very real 

issues.


Flash does not allow for use of the standard browser navigation. 

(Although it would be very cool for MM to write in some type of hook 

that we could tie into. ). This is usability issue that should apply 

to everyone here. I dont want my user to be fully adsorbed into my 

site, jumping from area to area...hit the back button and they are 

back into their previous site.


Flash is powerful tool..but like all powerful tools..it can be used 

for evil. Gratuitous animation is one evil. There are many sites that 

go way overboard..BTW - These were the same people using 300k 

animated gifs years ago- ;-)


True, not all of the points useit.com brings up apply to your users. 

The typical user I design for is very different that the typical 

users that others on this list design for.  Read it.. take the parts 

that apply to your particular situation.


-John


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	John J. Olson


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	Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center

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