Flash is still used for website components. Not for websites.
But it's a small market. Most flash components which details such things as videos or music playing have already been created in some way or another.
I am not dumb, you didn't understand what I said. Javascript and AJAX are now being used more than they were before and they are now the "craze" of new sites ( digg, facebook etc ). Do I see Flash in them? No. Are they the biggest sites right now? Yes. Will they get much bigger? Yes.
The facts are there for you to find, not for me to hand to you on a plate. It's clearly not a path that designers and coders are taking right now - flash.
Dominance of Flash? What are you on? You can only call Flash a dominance when it is used consistently throughout a website. So far, the largest sites of 2007/8 do NOT employ flash. Instead they use AJAX and Javascript. And yes, many sites do have the odd flash components, but that does NOT mean that they cannot be deployed using AJAX or Javascript ( i.e chat systems, many are flash, but AJAX and js are coming into the equation ).
http://www.antezeta.com/flash-problems.html
Need I say more? Well, I guess I do, the thing is a bit out of date.
I am not talking about flash components in sites ( which always have an equivalent js/AJAX system ) , I am talking about flash sites. There are very VERY few sites which deserve any appraisal at all for their Flash. It's ugly, its always the same ( swooshing effects, noises, the lot ) and it's not exactly seo friendly.
I know how to use flash, I have used it to make tool tips and cover flows and special moving pages. It's useful for such actions, but its overused. Way overused.
But it's a small market. Most flash components which details such things as videos or music playing have already been created in some way or another.
I am not dumb, you didn't understand what I said. Javascript and AJAX are now being used more than they were before and they are now the "craze" of new sites ( digg, facebook etc ). Do I see Flash in them? No. Are they the biggest sites right now? Yes. Will they get much bigger? Yes.
The facts are there for you to find, not for me to hand to you on a plate. It's clearly not a path that designers and coders are taking right now - flash.
Dominance of Flash? What are you on? You can only call Flash a dominance when it is used consistently throughout a website. So far, the largest sites of 2007/8 do NOT employ flash. Instead they use AJAX and Javascript. And yes, many sites do have the odd flash components, but that does NOT mean that they cannot be deployed using AJAX or Javascript ( i.e chat systems, many are flash, but AJAX and js are coming into the equation ).
http://www.antezeta.com/flash-problems.html
Need I say more? Well, I guess I do, the thing is a bit out of date.
I am not talking about flash components in sites ( which always have an equivalent js/AJAX system ) , I am talking about flash sites. There are very VERY few sites which deserve any appraisal at all for their Flash. It's ugly, its always the same ( swooshing effects, noises, the lot ) and it's not exactly seo friendly.
I know how to use flash, I have used it to make tool tips and cover flows and special moving pages. It's useful for such actions, but its overused. Way overused.