studies history and politics at tcd, designs websites, makes short films, plays banjo.
April 26 2008

The War on Flash

Everybody knows that web designers don’t like Flash. And by ‘everybody’ I mean ‘web designers’. See Glyphobet: Why Your Flash Design Sucks.

Somebody got the executives of a firm I’m doing some work for into the buzzword ‘flash’. So they love to discuss it; ‘We don’t want a lot of flash, but we do need a bit to impress the guys in the Middle East’. I don’t capitalise their use of ‘flash’ because they don’t mean Flash, as in ‘Adobe Flash’, they mean ‘sparkle’ or ‘pizzazz’.

So don’t tell anyone but I said I’m giving them ‘flash’ and I’m actually giving them javascript.