Uh, why? Are you looking forward to more flashing ads for Viagra or porn or mortgages?
Flash can be powerful when used for the right applications. Its probably at its worse when displaying crappy ads. All animated SVG is going to do is give marketing morons another format to do that in. That's not really a bonus in my book.
And if that's your line of thinking, I wouldn't be dissing the webmaster who is using Dreamweaver and Flash.;)
You can use browser back/forward buttons in Flash applications if the developer programs in that functionality.
In the same vein, you could also bookmark a page if the developer has added that functionality.
It is a very different presentation mechanism than HTML and people do automatically make that comparison. I wouldn't design an entire website in Flash, but it has some seriously powerful application possibilities that HTML can't match. Flash, when done right, is great. Flash, when done wrong, can be annoying.
Flash is not really a closed platform.
There are other companies who make authoring tools for Flash movies. SWiSH is a good one. Other programs let you export animations as SWF files, including Adobe products.
The SWF file format is also open, which lets other applications create Flash content. People have written alternate versions of Flash Player.
Flash Player also supports a number of different platforms: Windows 95 - Windows 2003 Server, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Linux, Solaris. There are even versions for handheld devices and cell phones. Something like 1/3 of all NTT DoCoMo phones in Japan are powered by Flash.
Personally, I think Flash is quite an open platform and it was that openness that helped it gain the penetration that it has. (For better or worse.)
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>Animated SVG can't come soon enough!
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Uh, why? Are you looking forward to more flashing ads for Viagra or porn or mortgages?
Flash can be powerful when used for the right applications. Its probably at its worse when displaying crappy ads. All animated SVG is going to do is give marketing morons another format to do that in. That's not really a bonus in my book.
And if that's your line of thinking, I wouldn't be dissing the webmaster who is using Dreamweaver and Flash.
You can use browser back/forward buttons in Flash applications if the developer programs in that functionality. In the same vein, you could also bookmark a page if the developer has added that functionality. It is a very different presentation mechanism than HTML and people do automatically make that comparison. I wouldn't design an entire website in Flash, but it has some seriously powerful application possibilities that HTML can't match. Flash, when done right, is great. Flash, when done wrong, can be annoying.
Flash is not really a closed platform. There are other companies who make authoring tools for Flash movies. SWiSH is a good one. Other programs let you export animations as SWF files, including Adobe products. The SWF file format is also open, which lets other applications create Flash content. People have written alternate versions of Flash Player. Flash Player also supports a number of different platforms: Windows 95 - Windows 2003 Server, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Linux, Solaris. There are even versions for handheld devices and cell phones. Something like 1/3 of all NTT DoCoMo phones in Japan are powered by Flash. Personally, I think Flash is quite an open platform and it was that openness that helped it gain the penetration that it has. (For better or worse.)