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

[Bradley Miller]

Uh -- have you ever programmed in Actionscript?  Have you programmed a 
RIA?   Closed minds are difficult to open I suppose . . .    If you think 
Flash is just animation, then you will be missing another boat very soon.

-- Bradley Miller

At 10:46 AM 3/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>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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