Eh, you are all free to flame me and call me a loser who has nothing better to do in his life than waste his intellectual potential on a completely irrelevant subject, but right now I'm incredibly pissed with what is in my opinion the worst thing that ever struck the web (beside frames and AOL...) - Flash sites. I find them annoying, inane, inefficient and completely useless. They take forever to load, using them once they do load is a nightmare and they posess maybe 10% of HTML's functionality. No matter how much I contemplate this silly concept, I can't imagine why any sane web designer would want to invest so much time into creating something that has no purpose whatsoever except maybe pleasing 14-year-old, "oh, look, pretty colorful picturez" morons. I believe that a good website must be intuitive and functional in order to be good. Overloading the site with unnecessary multimedia content undermines this concept and common sense. A good designer doesn't need any of that animated and colorful shit to make his site look tasteful! Not that it matters any - people will still keep making their stupid Flash sites to impress clueless animation-loving masses and I will still keep reflexively clicking Back button whenever I see the sinister "Loading Site" message and the dreaded progress bar below it. So Flash away!
P.S. No offense to Flash lovers among you. I myself like Macromedia Flash, it's great like all Macromedia software, but that doesn't change the fact that it's BLOODY USELESS!
P.S. No offense to Flash lovers among you. I myself like Macromedia Flash, it's great like all Macromedia software, but that doesn't change the fact that it's BLOODY USELESS!
