On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 01:28:47PM +0200, Lars Engels wrote:

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> Quoting Martin Tournoij :

>

>> Sign it here:

>>

>> http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html

>>  [..snip..]

>>

>

> While I totally agree to the above statements, tell me the sense of an

> online petition. Do you know a single petition that changed _anything_?

> The petition is adressed "Web Designers". How should they get aware of the

> petition?

Of course it won't cause a paradigm shift, but it can be used to show

that many people/users are not at all impressed but annoyed with

"sleak" flash sites, which might just be enough to convince a few

people/sites.
Even if only manages to convince a few people .. Is it not worth your

20 seconds?
> You cannot change the internet with that. Every big commercial site has

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> flash. It's colorful, it's loud, it attracts the people to their products.

> So you won't convince the webmaster of these sites to change.

Actually, that's not true, big commercial sites are usable because

more usability == more profit, and since flash != usable, flash ==

less profit.
Big sites like Amazon, Ebay, Google, Yahoo, etc. are all relatively

simple websites, it's true that quite a few websites from big

companies who's core business is not internet use flash, but this not

in those companies best interest either because usability == profit

etc.

I'm not sure why so many sites from big companies use flash, maybe

it's some bigshot suit who thinks he knows best or something...
--

Martin Tournoij

carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net

http://www.daemonforums.org
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The mosquito exists to keep the mighty humble.

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