Are we up and running again? Shyrell Melara For the Quality You Deserve! Melara Family Photography http://shyrellmelara.tripod.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Talbot" <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Virtual Expo - Day by day Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:51:44 +0000 > > > Macrimedia is spyware. When it is installed you automatically give > > permission for macromedia to "monitor" how your computer is used. > You may > > consider this secure but I do **not**. > > Dave > > For a private site it's up the the site owner really - if they want to > make thier work less accessible then demanding that visitors install > something to visit is one way to go. > > For a business site (attempting to sell stuff) it would be crazy: by > all means provide "rich" content for people who have the means to view > it but don't forget the efficient use of the applet tag: that is to > provide alternative content for those without. > > Personally, I find Flash a waste of time (I mean TIME in the literal > sense). At work we don't have a choice: nobody gets to install > anything through the firewall. Flash is not considered > business-critical so we don't have it. > > One of the worst things with most flash presentations is that the > authors don't follow any accessibility guideleines. The author chooses > the font size and colour scheme you **WILL** view it at. Recent > versions of flash do address the accessibiltiy issue I gather but it's > down to the author to enable it. With HTML it's much easier: you set > your browser to ignore restrictive CSS and font attributes. > > > For commercial sites (used for business) non-accessible content is > potentially illegal (or soon will be I bet). > > For private sites I guess there is nothing to stop the old > > "Best viewed on my PC" school of web design ;o) > > Bob -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
