| Honestly, as a website dev during the height of flash's dominance, I think you're a little off with your hatred. During this time, it was extremely rare to have a designer involved in website design (I can't prove it, but I think you'll see a correlation with the growth of template sites at the time, I broke my back trying to learn design and color theory at the time and I still can't even draw a straight line freehand :) so what I normally had to deal with was the client as designer. Complete nightmare... Here's one anecdotal data point: I was designing an eshop for a client. He demanded a long flash intro to the site. I tried to lead him through an idea- You want customers?
Yes.
You want repeat customers?
Yes.
You want them to have to wait 30 seconds every time they shop to watch your intro?
Errr, yes!
Ok..... So I snuck in a huge skip intro button on the flash intro... Call from client:
'hey, my buddies tell me that the intro is ruined by a big button saying 'skip intro'. Remove it now!!! It's degrading the experience!!!' I tried, but hey, I got paid, and his business suffered in the long run- and I mean went bankrupt... I know of few developers at the time who wanted to do flash intros. It was normally forced on them... |