 this week there was an a list apart article called semantic flash slippery when wet when i first started learning about web standards i hated flash i thought that it was really all just bells and whistles and nothing useful as time has passed i have realized that there are some situations where flash can be useful first there was the sifr scalable inman flash replacement earlier this week there was the introduction of swfir swf image replacement i think this technique seems really cool and there are definitely situations where i would be interested in using it just adding a simple drop shadow and rotating the image a few degrees really add a nice effect to the image my only problem is that i think it may be overused i hope that people dont get so flash happy that they use it for all images on their site the same goes for the sifr technique i hope that people only utilize these techniques in moderation and we dont see it all over the place i have a feeling that we are going to start seeing more and more flash out there and i really hope that we dont see it used the way it used to be i still cannot understand how a person can build an all flash site and feel good about themselves does it make them happy that people with screen readers would have problems using their site i guess it must make someone happy since people are still doing it as a side note i have played around with the swfir script and it was very very easy to implement 