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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[babysimon]

Yes. I've thought he's been losing it ever since he started the NNG.

Still, we'll all be using SVG soon... or next year... or the next...

Death to Flash!!

[ukfetish.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, please, someone put it out of my misery.

Mind you, this amused me: p-p-p-pick off a penguin (http://www.bossmonster.com/games/penguin.html)

~Denny

Usability: Case in point

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

http://www.pisces-trust.org.uk/

(and if you can't see it, don't bother. Uses Flash MX)

[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.

[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

Actually, I predict nothing will come of this. I remember when he started working for Sun... six months later, their web site's front page was still one huge 80K GIF imagemap with no text navigation. This was in the days before 56K modems...

[zz]

what's flash? ;)

btw, don't know if you know that ikea does ickle penguins for 60p (iirc that it was you that collects them)

[barakta]

Nice......

Just what I needed to read before my multimedia exam from hell. the lecturer likes flash - a lot :-( Ugh ugh and more ugh.....

But then such gems as large amount of narrative should be done in audio not text are commonplace..... ARGH I hate audio on websites and interactive CD crap.....

Oh well off i go to my exam see if I can get a few stabs in about large amounts of streaming audio, auditory memory (i.e it sucks) and stuff..... Shame i can't say Nielson doesn't like flash anymore ;-(.

C'est la vie.... I'll continue to avoid flash, having tried to use the bugger for my multimedia I'm even more convinced of its evilness.

Natalya