The worst problem with flash is that it gives the sort of eye candy that the marketing people love – and they use it with gay abandon because the marketing people are more interested about how a thing looks rather that its functionality. Eg – flash intros.

Ease of editing, constant updates, cross browser, multiple device (esp mobiles – the next frontier) html will win hands down every time, try making a pdf out of you flash page.

The 3 most imortant things on a web site are :- content content and content, followed by navigation so you can find the content, after this comes basic formating to make the content more readable, Then in position 5, 6 and 7 you have more content, even more content and then some funcitonality such as search and forms.

Eye candy is only for the owners of the website.
Flash looks impressive and can work extremely well but dollar for dollar a html site will always out preform flash except in a few special instances.

Who can’t see flash? More people than many understand. Many people surf the net at work, and many more workplaces will block flash content from coming in. Mostly to keep bandwidth usage (Youtube is an example) down as well as prevent possible openings for viruses.

I am not a fan of Flash. I think it’s nice for a display kind of site where you do not need to change the content regularly and for some embedded applications using Flex. I would not make a blog in Flash, nor a news site, or anything.

When push comes to shove, you have to not think of the designers and techies who can easily learn and use a site, but the average person who gets lost easily, and does not have patience for a loader bar.

I prefer trying to show great design without using flash. Great usability, imaginative thinking, and ease of use. That’s just me.

I also think with the widespread use of mobile devices now to view the internet, one needs to think deeply about how they build their sites, because most mobile devices cannot view Flash.

if you wont cater to your clients needs and are too lazy to learn a simple program.. then nevermind you. stop posting useless articles.

I’d love to see an example of a Flash site which couldn’t more easily be done in W3C standard technologies (ie not requiring a plugin) and whic performs any kind of decent purpose on the web.