Comments on: SEO: Flash Is Evil. Five Big Reasons Not to Use Flash

By: john

john — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:15:59 +0000

I don’t know. I work as a programmer in education/training. Flash is heavily used for interactive training and I haven’t seen anything in HTML5 that makes me think it will be replacing Flash anytime soon.

Imagine a training module on how locks works. Instead of some dry text you have a flash module where the user reads about how a lock works while moving a boat thru the locks, raising/lowering the water level, etc.

Or imagine a printer technician who has to learn how to repair the latest printer, but can’t get her hands on one. A flash printer simulation would walk the tech thru different tasks needed to rip the printer apart. She could use a virtual screwdriver to remove screws, open panels, etc. We’ve actually done this in flash where the entire printer was built in 3D in flash so the technician could strip it down to the bare chasis.

By: John laramie

John laramie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:39:53 +0000

Flash is very powerful and I agree thhat some flash is bad, and alot of it is. Flash is mor often abused than not. By abused, I mean for people with low bandwidth or if the page was not indexed well which is not the fault of the flash programmer.
I wanted to do some things in javascript DOM, but after finding no way to do some things that will work across all browsers, I found that Flash is the only posible way to do a lot of simple things that seem like they should have been posible with javascipt to work on all browsers.

By the way some CSS for this page to make it look nicer would be :

selector-name {padding-right:5px;

// 5 to 10 px padding so your text isn’t up against the window edge. to me that is anoying.
}

By: Bradley Dee

Bradley Dee — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:22:47 +0000

Stumbled on this article and laughed my backside off at all the Flash fan-boys defending the hours of gimp work they’ve obviously spent understanding and implementing their Flash skills on an unwary web. Just get back to your Playstation and leave the real development to people who aren’t empathetically challenged.

By: sikis

sikis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:27 +0000

Naive, biased, alarmist, patronising comments like this are evil, not Flash. Misuses of any technology will result in a bad experience. I can make you a really bad website in HTML and JavaScript if you like. Blame the designer, not the technology… it’s how you use it that counts!

By: SEO Consultant Joel

SEO Consultant Joel — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:23:58 +0000

GREAT POST! I am scared of flash and SWF files when performing seo. There is a lot of things that need to be updated before it will be indexed properly.

By: Narendra Sisodiya

Narendra Sisodiya — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:43:18 +0000

Here I have made a “5 point philosophy of educational content” – These 5 month are derived from a well study and research. According to this philosophy , flash is Greatest evil for Education.
Read more at – http://techfandu.blogspot.com/2008/10/5-essential-aspects-of-educational.html

By: flash designer

flash designer — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:01:44 +0000

ignorance is bliss (but flash is the future.)

By: Digg Labs: Flash doesn’t suck all the time. - Litany Against Fear

Digg Labs: Flash doesn’t suck all the time. - Litany Against Fear — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:01:39 +0000

[...] Don’t get me wrong. I’m not an expert on Flash. I haven’t even made anything special in flash. Yeah, I can tween a circle and bounce it around the stage, and that’s the extent of my Flash knowledge. One thing I do know about it: if you want to drive traffic from Google searches, you’re better off not using it. Some bloggers even claim its use to be evil. Now I’m sure there’s a lot of Adobe fans are ready and willing to tear me a new one by now with arguments about how Flex and AIR will change the face of the interweb, but it’s my opinion and always will be that your website’s MAIN content should NEVER be in Flash. Let’s look at the letters you type into that address bar of your browser at least once every day: HTTP. Hyper. Text. Not animations, or effects, but text. Until that protocol changes I doubt Flash will ever be used as a serious web design platform. [...]

By: Roqkeiro

Roqkeiro — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:29:08 +0000

The Adobe Flahs Player FORCEFUL INSTALLATION POP-UP is simply TERRORISTIC. The only option available is ” trust Flash Player “, The Flash Player DICTATORS don’t give us the option ” don’t pop-up please, don’t install “; The Adobe Flahs Player like an awful Adobe System Incorporated Guestapo Software will keep popping-up in the computer screen until one is so distressed by The Adobe tortures that one may eventually mistankenly click The Installation button, which is the only choice available, and when he or she recover conciousness and tries to uninstall the awful flash player, it hides itself in the computer and keeps on with its brainwashing, hoping that one day we become Terrorists like them.

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Anmari Web Design » The truth about flash websites? — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:03:43 +0000

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