[COLUG] What good uses for Flash are there?

[Andy Ingraham Dwyer]

Jim wrote:

> 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.  

I find FlashBlock   http://flashblock.mozdev.org/  and
PrefBar  http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
both for Mozilla, to be useful in seizing control of the flash viewing 
experience.  FlashBlock loads a place-holder that you can click on if you 
want to actually load the flash in the first place.  PrefBar (among its 
other features) lets you kill all flash on the currently viewed page/tab.


> 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.  

For a terrific example of Flash cartoons that are have enough 
interactivity to justify its use over MPEG, see:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/


-Andy

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