RE: FN-FORUM flash arguments

date posted 23rd January 2001 17:45

[BIG SNIP] (- oooer)

> and i never fail to be amazed when many designers denigrate developers (go
> that alliteation!), the 'oooh,a database so what?' attitude, well the web
> is mainly content these days and if all youre interested in doing
> is drawing
> pretty pictures youre going to start finding life more and more
> difficult as
> companies stop wasting money on useless pretty sites and
> concentrate more on
> usuable, profitable justifiable sites designed to streamline
> their business
> and not as a bandwagon-jumping exercise.

Gotta agree with you on that one Dave, I work at a hosting company and we
never get people phoning up asking if we are compatible with Flash (and yes,
they are that stupid because they WILL phone up and ask if we are compatible
with IE/Netscape) but they phone up all the time asking about things like
PHP, ASP, mySQL, Java, Perl etc. etc.
"Can you host my pretty pictures?" never gets asked, "Can you host my
ecommerce site" gets asked 100s of times a day.

Thats my 2 penn'rth


Alex.