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[Richard Archer]

At 2:07 PM +1000 11/8/09, Brendan Scott wrote:

>It is not necessarily evil, but it is evil.  Not because it's
>proprietary, but because it is typically used to obscure information.
>Flash is about promoting entertainment over information.

While we're Flash-bashing, my biggest gripe is that text
content inside a Flash movie is locked up. You can't easily
copy and paste it, quote it, edit it etc.

In my opinion this makes Flash a regressive technology.
It's on a par with reverting to fax from email. Perhaps
worse, as you can at least annotate a fax with a pen
and then forward it on.

Of course some people might see locking up content as
a positive feature of the technology (Hi Rupert!).

 ...R.