- Macromedia Flash is a popular technology for creating animated and interactive vector graphics presentations.
- Your site should not depend on it. (some sites are a gigantic Flash page and that's not good.)
- Flashy Flash ads are becoming increasingly more and more annoying.
- Good uses for Flash:
- Interactive or non-interactive Presentations, movies, Flicks.
- As a replacement for Java.
- To provide an alternative convenient interface to a site. (while still having a pure-HTML one)
Availability
- The Flash client is distributed as a binary-only driver with a possibly problematic license.
- The W3C Standard "SVG" (short for Scalable Vector Graphics) aims to be a non-proprietary alternative for Flash.
- As of Mid-2004 it is under-implemented in most platforms.
Written by Shlomi Fish