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Quote from: Anders Larsen on March 04, 2008, 06:51:48 AM
Ok, her is my advise on flash: DO NOT USE IT. It is nonstandard, it motivate people to make annoying design (animations and stuff), you can not navigate it with the keyboard, copy-parse generally don't work, you can not resize page/text (the text doesn't reflow), it take a lot of computer power (more than standard HTML pages), it does not work with screen readers (you may not think about it, but blind people actually use the internet), and there are probably a few other thinks I can not think about right now.
Quote from: Anders Larsen on March 04, 2008, 06:51:48 AM
It is not http://www.w3schools.com/ who define the web standards, it is www.w3.org. The tutorials on w3school are ok, but not entirely correct, so you should be careful. An example is that they say the minimal rs
I stand completely corrected. I made the error of recommending tutorials i didn't actually use much, and was caught.
jag:
Sorry, i got a session time out while posting, and reposted poorly. The first half of my post was going to be:
Quote from: Anders Larsen on March 04, 2008, 06:51:48 AM
Ok, her is my advise on flash: DO NOT USE IT. It is nonstandard, it motivate people to make annoying design (animations and stuff), you can not navigate it with the keyboard, copy-parse generally don't work, you can not resize page/text (the text doesn't reflow), it take a lot of computer power (more than standard HTML pages), it does not work with screen readers (you may not think about it, but blind people actually use the internet), and there are probably a few other thinks I can not think about right now.
I agree completely. Flash is meant primarily for animations, although some of the more recent advanced uses can be more general purpose. In general, for all technologies, you should only use it if you have a clear need. What is the need you have for which static HTML is insufficient?
james
guildofblades:
>>Make sure that the pages work in all popular browsers (IE, firefox and opera), and with screen resolutions down to 800x600<<
For the last few years I had been designing all our web pages to the minimum 800 x 600 standard. As of a month ago, I switch to the 1024 x 768 as our minimum design standard. The reason...more recent surveys show that 1% or less of the people use monitors with 800 x 600 resolution anymore.
I have begun to design all pages on 1483online.com to the larger standard now and not one person as complained since we started doing so.
I agree. Avoid flash intros....as much as 50% of people leave a site rather than waiting for the flash to load. Entirely too many people may not even have a good enough flash viewer to display it anyways. And if a flash intro is a bad idea, a flash navigation system is 10 times worse.
Ryan S. Johnson
Guild of Blades Publishing Group
http://www.guildofblades.com
http://www.1483online.com
http://www.ms-crm-consulting.com
masqueradeball:
All right FLASH= BAD... thanks for the in put.
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