"Dave Balderstone" wrote in message
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In article , Swingman
wrote:

According to Dvorak, et al, in "Cranky Geeks" this week, Adobe is dying
to get flash onto the iPad, but the megalomaniac Jobs will have none of
it.

Dvorak aside, Flash is an abomination. H.264 and/or HTML 5 will
hopefully push it into the pit it deserves to live in.

I recently had to order some items by phone because the website kept
freezing. Infact I could only research the items on an old site that ran
glacially slow. When discussing this problem with the lady on the phone she
said tha the problem had started six weeks ago and their "webguy" couldn't
figure out the problem. They were worried because of all the complaints and
decreased sales.

I asked her if they had any design work done on their website recently. And,
of course, the "image overhaul" got done just before the problems started.
And these geniuses did not make the connection. Duhhhh......

I mentioned that I got some error messages concerning Flash. I told her a
couple Flash horror stories. She had never heard of Flash before. I also
told her that many designers were in love with Flash and were ****ing people
off all over the place. And not to expect them to be honest about it. She
was frantically writing notes and was going to take it to her boss. The boss
was getting upset that the web people were not solving the problem.

A classic example of an artsy fartsy designer screwing it up for everybody.
Hopefully they will take this"web designer" out and shoot him. The world
will be a better place for all of us.