Flash vs. CSS Web Design
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Web design blog Fadtastic has an interesting editorial from a former Flash web developer on his reasons for moving from Flash-based website design to standards-compliant CSS design. Some of the points covered are fairly common points of argument in the Flash v. CSS debate (e.g., search engine optimization, accessibility issues for visually-impaired users, etc.), but the author goes on to make a number of interesting points.
One particular statistic of interest is his challenge to Adobe’s standard argument of 96%+ adoption rates for the Flash Player (Adobe, Flash’s publisher, contends that the vast majority of Internet users worldwide have the Flash plugin installed on their computers - allowing them to seamlessly view Flash-based content on websites. The author sites one particular German study of Internet users that suggests that little more than half of users (53.9%) have the Flash plugin installed on their computers.
Click here to read the full piece at Fadtastic »
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