BS: Techy - how do you spot Flash sites?

Subject: BS: Techy - how do you spot Flash sites?
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 06:08 AM

I have noticed a number of Folk club sites using Flash - some who should know better.

Invariably they take minutes (think 3 - 5) to load on 56K and must have been created by people on broadband.

Almost all do not provide text while they load or links to by-pass the movie.
There are a lot of non-broadband users and quite a few without Flash (like me- out of choice). Some of these site ask me to link to them and don't even reply when I request a return link.

What I was looking for was a way to distinguish slow (large pictures) from Flash movies without resorting to proving it really is the world wide wait. On my site I prefer to warn people who surf from my site as the comments of those that have difficulty usually put blame on me for others' lack of net savvy.

my site

Subject: RE: BS: Techy - how do you spot Flash sites?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 09:07 AM

1) quick answer to "a way to distinguish slow (large pictures) from Flash movies without resorting to proving it really is the world wide wait."

NONE!

2) these site amy be totally incomprehensible for the blind too - see other thread

Subject: RE: BS: Techy - how do you spot Flash sites?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 01:31 PM

Go into your browsers preferances and turn Flash off...

There... no problem

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Techy - how do you spot Flash sites?
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 07:58 PM

er thanks Clinton - I don't have Flash - deliberately. The Flash movie insists on loading in it's entirety until the Certificate dialog inviting me to download Flash. I usually eyeball the modem on 100% Rx and give-up after 30 seconds.

What I was looking for was a quick way to know if the solid download was a Flash movie or big picture, they amount to the same thing - unecessary delay.

Another three problems with Flash, it prints as per screen - using loads of ink, and you cannot "save as" a page sitting in a browser off-line (after disconnect) and you cannot see where hyperlinks go (not on right click > properties anyway).

One guy offers web design service and has not re-instated my link after his Flashy revamp despite reminders over two years - I see him often and he is not being funny with me but it does make yer wonder!

Subject: RE: BS: Techy - how do you spot Flash sites?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 08:21 PM

Some people get infatuated with a particular technology and forget that the original purpose of the Internet was to disseminate information in a simple easy way.

Subject: RE: BS: Techy - how do you spot Flash sites?
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 06:21 AM

radio & TV has long since sat in that camp - if it ever was in the info dept anyway.

Sorry Clinton - I think you were trying to tell me that if I downloaded and (yawn, yawn , is it finished yet) install zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I would have the test inbuilt in the plug-in. Well it is about on par with any other application that might test for - assuming I could find one - so thanks again.
As Jack Benny's answer to the mugger who told him - "Yer money or your life" - and similarly to his radio sketch - there will be a long pause

















"I said -Yer money or your life"


I'm thinking it over.