An interesting weblog article against Flash

[monsterfx]

A friend of mine passed this on to me and I'm curious to see what response it gets here.

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1197

Remember, this is how some of the world sees one of our favorite tools.

-monster.

[nocrapchurch]

From the Article
Remember the scene in Aliens where the baby alien emerges from the guy's stomach? Flash has been tunneling deeply in the innards of browsers and web site development, and its latest iteration (Flash MX) looks like a full-blown attempt to emerge and kill its host in the process.

Great writing style. Too bad the rest of the article isn't writing on this level. The guy runs into a lot techinical words that would lose the average reader.

As for what he's actually saying, he's right on a lot of his points. Macromedia is trying to infect everything web related with Flash. The problem is when Flash is not needed, Macromedia seems to find a way to still get it in there. This is bad because it turns people, like the author of that article, off to anything Flash and/or Macromedia related.

You may be thinking, what doesn't need Flash? Well, how about this message board. Although, Flash could do something very close to what is being run here, it would be a pain in the *ss to use. That's just one example though.

-scott
http://www.scottmanning.com/