Aargh! Nielsen turns to the Dark Side for money.

[ciphergoth]

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html (scroll to the end)

The correct "usability improvement" for Flash is a stake through the fucking heart. Flash is suitable for online games, not for content.

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[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

The thing that gets me about Flash is that even when you have it installed, half the time it doesn't fucking work.

For example, one of the VW sites works (on the machine I'm currently using), another one doesn't. Which is why I haven't bothered to install Flash on my Mac.

The only thing worse than having to use a web site with Flash is having to maintain one. The generator software builds a load of not-really-human-editable files with fragile code and hard-coded paths, on the assumption that you'll never want to move anything or host on anything other than Apache or IIS.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Things may get better on that end:

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=kitty_goth&itemid=46061