[COLUG] What good uses for Flash are there?

[Jason Carr]

Creating Websites. I think that I have seen more websites in Flash than 
HTML recently...or PHP...or Javascript...It seems to be taking over, I 
don't like that.

Jim wrote:

>What good uses for Flash are there?  
>
>The biggest use I see for Flash is for annoying animated images, 
>like animated GIFs, but one can not disable Flash animation, 
>so Flash is even worse than GIFs.  
>
>The next biggest use I see for Flash is for little movies 
>about products.  Unfortunately, one can not jump back and 
>forth within the presentations.  One has to start at the 
>beginning and suffer through all the drivel to get to some 
>crumb of info.  
>
>The best use I've seen for Flash was for satirical cartoons.  
>The content was significant, although one still had little 
>control over watching it.  MPEG would have been better.  
>
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