On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:23:26PM -0400, Daniel W Barowy wrote:
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> Marco Peereboom wrote:
>> I for one am glad there is no plugin for that infectious disease called
>> flash.
>>
>
> On the other hand, web developers think this thing is hot shit.  I 
> certainly share your sentiment, but having just come from a web development 
> class where the instructor essentially proselytized 
> Flash/Flex(/maybe-Silverlight) for 3 hours as the solution to 
> cross-browser-AJAX compatibility headaches, I think most of the world 
> doesn't care about what's right or best-- they just want what's easy. This 
> is something that gives web developers consistent sites across >90% of 
> existing browsers, because there's ONE runtime, and that's worth the price 
> tag for the development tools.

Somehow the word Java comes to mind...

Tell me again how that one runtime meme worked for them again.

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> This guy's day job is at a bank, and they're really into it-- it "solves" a 
> number of problems for them.  So if this is the kind of thing that 
> developers are going to pick up en masse, then it's something that will 
> need to be addressed, else people who won't or can't run Flash will be 
> increasingly marginalized.

Flash is only good for a few things such as "naked ladies performing
anatomic tricks", "dude getting punched in the ding-dong" & "Trogodor
the burninator".  Nothing makes me happier than visiting a website and
having some ad puking its irrelevant content on me.

What's perplexing to me is that most people sit idle watching the
internet as we know it disintegrate in front of their eyes.  Allowing
themselves to be bombarded with ads.  Removing the actual reason for why
html exists which is indexing content so that it can be retrieved and
used by many.  Those people are all ok with being shat on as long as
they can watch youtube or $whatever_infantile_site_here.  The 14 year
old demographic is apparently the dominating one on teh intartubez
these days.

I for one can't wait to be marginalized.