Open letter to sites REQUIRING FLASH
Note to folks with websites that depend on flash—
NOT EVERYONE IS WILLING OR ABLE TO DOWNLOAD A PLUG-IN THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO SEE YOUR OH SO CUTE FLASH CRAP SITE!
The web was built to operate using “HTML†as the primary language. ALL browsers support “HTMLâ€. Many DO NOT support “flash†which is a proprietary bandwidth hog and IS NOT designed to render entire websites with, no matter what Macromedia may claim.
If you just HAVE to have flash on your site try to have another site rendered in standard HTML that the browser is redirected to that will allow viewing of your site…
Thanks for reading.
Dave
David E. Patty
http://www.technoprimitive.org
Themocracy
Indeed. “This website requires ” is one of those things that often sends me to another page. I thought the web was supposed to bring us together, not force us to use a particular thing–other than HTML, which IS the web, after all. Oh, well, if it won’t display, I won’t see it, so I won’t cry about it….
Not gonna cry, but will bitch and do so loudly and proudly, both on my blog and to the owners of the offending websites if there is something there that I want to see.
If I offend them with my impolite way of telling them that their Flash (or whatever) based site sucks, then tough, they should have thought about compatability before they put a browser/os restrictive site up…