- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 14:02:13 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
An article on wired.com: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35927,00.html "Not so long ago, Web designers who wanted to create fancy sites with dynamic interfaces had to take a deep breath and code their pop-up menus and glowing menu buttons in Sun's Java. "But buggy Java engines, performance problems, and design tools geared toward programmers instead of graphic artists has prompted a mass exodus from Java to a once-obscure format originally intended for animators: Macromedia's Flash." The accessibility drawbacks of Flash aren't even touched on, and instead you get the following: "Torrone, a Macromedia partner who sits on the Flash advisory board, is building the first online bank entirely in Flash. "You couldn't do a whole bank in Java," Torrone said. "It's too unstable. There are too many different implementations on different browsers and different platforms. It has lower penetration and there are security issues like malicious Java applets. Flash is almost foolproof. It's just graphics. There's no key to the door." Anyone else worried about a trend towards an all-Flash web? --Kynn PS: More about the all-Flash bank can be found at: http://www.macromedia.com/software/generator/gallery/collection/archive/usabanc.html -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ Next of Kynn: a quasi-regular web log http://www.kynn.com/next/
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