Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:01:41 +0200 From: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition Message-ID: <20080626120141.GA28507@rwxrwxrwx.net> In-Reply-To: <20080626132847.abf4caa680k0wwgg@0x20.net> References: <20080626103955.GA28128@rwxrwxrwx.net> <20080626132847.abf4caa680k0wwgg@0x20.net>
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 01:28:47PM +0200, Lars Engels wrote: > Quoting Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net>: > >> Sign it here: >> >> http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html >> [..snip..] >> > > While I totally agree to the above statements, tell me the sense of an > online petition. Do you know a single petition that changed _anything_? > The petition is adressed "Web Designers". How should they get aware of the > petition? Of course it won't cause a paradigm shift, but it can be used to show that many people/users are not at all impressed but annoyed with "sleak" flash sites, which might just be enough to convince a few people/sites. Even if only manages to convince a few people .. Is it not worth your 20 seconds? > You cannot change the internet with that. Every big commercial site has > flash. It's colorful, it's loud, it attracts the people to their products. > So you won't convince the webmaster of these sites to change. Actually, that's not true, big commercial sites are usable because more usability == more profit, and since flash != usable, flash == less profit. Big sites like Amazon, Ebay, Google, Yahoo, etc. are all relatively simple websites, it's true that quite a few websites from big companies who's core business is not internet use flash, but this not in those companies best interest either because usability == profit etc. I'm not sure why so many sites from big companies use flash, maybe it's some bigshot suit who thinks he knows best or something... -- Martin Tournoij carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net http://www.daemonforums.org QOTD: The mosquito exists to keep the mighty humble.
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