This is the archive site for the pioneering blog CamWorld.com, which is no longer maintained.
Cameron Barrett's personal site can now be found at cameron.barrett.org and his professional site can be found at cameronbarrett.com.

November 28, 2000

Flash Usability. That's an ...

Flash Usability. That's an oxymoron, right? Seriously though, I'm glad to see that Macromedia is starting to take this issue seriously. The biggest problem with Flash is that it's a presentation-based format, which doesn't work very well for information-based and data-based web sites. And until people start seeing Flash as a nothing but a shell or vehicle for that data, then we'll continue to see the crap that's made Flash such a dirty word in many usability circles. The web is, and always will be, a data-based (i.e. text-based) medium. To ignore this and to base an entire site around the pretty bells and whistles that Flash offers is a gross and negligent mistake being made by many web designers around the world.

Bug Tracking and Project Management Tools for Linux

eBay: The Ultimate Video Game Collection

Posted by Cameron Barrett at November 28, 2000 10:58 PM