Why is it that car manufacturers feel the need to heavily use Macromedia Flash on virtually all of their websites? I mean, I can understand wanting to do a little bit of animation to show the cars moving, but a large number of the sites use Flash for content that is extremely static. All that accomplishes, really, is making it so that search engines cannot crawl through the data on the vehicles — which makes it that much harder to find manufacturer information on vehicles. Also, at least on every computer that I use, interacting with a Flash site just feels sluggish compared to a regular HTML/CSS website. The auto manufacturers could accomplish much the same effects (minus the animations) with a well-designed HTML/CSS page, with the added benefit of, oh I don’t know, Google searchability?
Popularity: 37% [?]
You noticed that too, huh? It is pretty annoying. Of course, it’s all about the **shiny, shiny, flashy, flashy** get their attention thing. Don’t they know we’re not all ferrets…:)
Boing Boing Boing Boing …. ooooohhh…shiny!
Musicians do this, too. It PISSES ME OFF.
And if they don’t use Flash, they use frames and height-restricted designs on the idea that folks don’t want to scroll.
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