[ryansan]

My gut reaction to this is that it takes me back to the old days of rainbow dividers (http://rainbowdivider.com/) and animated gifs, a la Strongbad's site: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbsite/

On the other hand, as with many web technologies, used judiciously this could be cool for interactive infographics and things like that...

[hissworks]

My proudest moment on the internet was submitting the email that led to the creation of Strongbad's website.

[karlmdavis]

As it should be! You have more of an explanation anywhere?

[hissworks]

I should write it up. The short story is that I was losing my mind in an "Interactive Fiction" course I took as an elective within my major (Fiction Writing... I know, I know). I was self-taught in CSS, HTML, JavaScript but had never used Flash, which at the time was still fairly new. However, everything we were being exposed to in Flash was difficult for me to work through to do even the most basic action, so while I was particularly stumped on an issue I wrote the email (http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail51.html), intentionally using the word "website" in every sentence because I just thought it'd be funny.

Didn't occur to me til just now the irony of struggling with Flash and then writing to Strongbad, which was all done up in Flash.

[slacka]

Tried it out on Firefox and it pegged one of my CPU cores to 100%. I hope this is not the future of the Internet.

[xradionut]

I agree. It may be useful in certain web applications, but chances are it will end up being used for advertising and "effects" that are annoying and unwanted.

[SimHacker]

The cool way to implement the BLINK tag in HTML5 is to run an Apple ][ emulator written in JavaScript, and use AppleSoft's FLASH command.

http://www.calormen.com/applesoft/index.htm

5 FLASH

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

[ehmuidifici]

That was my first impression, too. And I bet that 90% of "webdesigners" will use these effects massively oh webpages, just as we saw on the 90's.