{"authorId":"1","title":"The Rise of Flash Again","slug":"the-rise-of-flash-again","postDate":1173046364,"expiryDate":null,"enabled":"1","fields":{"2":"<p>This week, there was an A List Apart article called <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/articles\/semanticflash\">Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>First, there was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeindustries.com\/sifr\/\">sIFR: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement<\/a>. Earlier this week, there was the introduction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swfir.com\/\">swfir: swf Image Replacement<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n<p>My only problem is that I think it may be overused. I hope that people don't 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 don't 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 don't 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.<\/p>\n\n<p>As a side note, I have played around with the swfir script, and it was very very easy to implement.<\/p>","14":{"old_id":{}}}}