RE: FN-FORUM: Flash vs HTML/Javascript

date posted 28th January 2006 17:24

Flash has its advantages - you can nullify cross-browser compatibility
problems because the site will look the same across all of them. You also
have more visual options in terms of using different types of font that do
not need to be installed on the host computer to appear, and original
transition / animation effects that would be hard to recreate as well using
another method. As already stated there are a number of downsides to flash
too.

In my opinion, I think you can create tremendously original content with
flash, whereas html/css/js can look samey. When it comes down to it, it
depends on the what the job requires. I wouldn't fancy building a forum
application in flash for example, but I would use some flash if I was
creating a site for some techno/rock band that wanted something different.

Michael Palmer Web Developer

MRP=dEV
t: 07977 294840
www.mrpdev.co.uk






-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Cy Culpin
Sent: 28 January 2006 17:35
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Flash vs HTML/Javascript


Hi Lee,

I started out using flash for most things (and as a main output platform)
when I launched my business last July, but I have started to use XHTML, CSS,
and PHP pretty much full time since October, and haven't really looked back.

I love using flash, but its so much easier to edit and update html pages I
find.
Im sure other flash designers will disagree with me, its just what im
finding...and im still a pretty much a newb to all this scene.

Also if I did just do all flash jobs, id never have any work.

My 2p

Cy


> I've noticed over the last few weeks that some designers tend to use
> flash where HTML & Javascript would do the job just as well, if not
better.
>
> Is there a reason for this preference? It's my understanding that
> flash files can't be read by robots, so surely the html solution would
> be better for SEO? Speed on HTML would also be quicker than waiting
> for a flash file to load as well.



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