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Its true you CAN use Flash for very useful, complex things - its a very powerful tool for building complex UI interactions.

However, at least 98% of Flash users use Flash where HTML would be 100% able to do the job. The next 1.99999% of Flash users use Flash to do things that HTML can't do, but are useless. Only 0.00001% of Flash users use Flash where Flash was truly a good design choice.

And then theres the annoying % of Flash users who put some entirely useless Flash animation "intro" on their front page, but make Flash the ONLY way to "click through" to the ACTUAL web page, forgetting to include even so much as an .html link to get to the actual web page (which often doesn't even use Flash at all). So people who don't have Flash can't even get to the web page, even though the web page doesn't use Flash! How stupid that? Heres an example: http://satellite.worldonline.co.za/ (I emailed the webmaster and he said he would fix it, that was about six months ago and it still hasnt been fixed! So the webmaster even knows about it). So all I get with Mozilla is a big white box that says "click here to get the plugin".

PS all of the above "statistics" I made up. What is true though is that approx. 5% of web sites use Flash. I've only ever seen ONE website, EVER, that used Flash for something useful that actually required the use of something as complex as Flash.

Stallman's influence is also being felt in South Africa. I was not aware that he had spoken there too.

Be an anonmous coward instead!

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