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February 21, 2007
"Fear of Flash"
"Fear of Flash": Great essay by James Ward, now an Adobe staffer... a taste: "My attitude changed from Flash is very cool, to all these 'skip into' sites have gotten very annoying. I also gave up hope of learning to create Flash sites myself, due to my ever-growing ideology of Freedom, prompting me to switch to Linux on the desktop... hanging out on Slashdot led me to believe that since Flash was so abused, it really lacked value. When I first saw a simple web form built with Flash I laughed and said, 'Why would anyone use Flash for these types of applications?'" When his employer wanted a more engaging website, James objected on various grounds to using Flash... and then: "My boss came into work one morning after having been to a Flex briefing, jazzed that she had found the answer, 'Let's build it with Flex!' I responded by asking what was this Flex thing." After that, the rest is history, I guess. ;-)
Posted by JohnDowdell at February 21, 2007 01:56 PM
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