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May 17, 2007
An alternative to Flash-bashing
An alternative to Flash-bashing: Yesterday I read a pro-JavaScript article from Lisha Sterling at WebReference.com, that was mostly "Flash is not accessible, cannot be searched, fails if someone doesn't have the plugin." At the end there is a little "JavaScript has improved lately," before closing with "Kill the Proprietary Plugin". I have a small suggestion: why don't you just do something good, yourself, instead of trying to persuade by lies and amibguities? Evangelize how people can improve their HTML/JS/CSS to better serve the screenreaders used by those with poor visual acuity... shun the SEO snakeoil routines, but remind people of the values of thinking as a searcher would, and acting to help spiders assist those searchers... do something to fix the awful problems of browser disparity and molasses-like evolution. Just do something useful. No need to bash other solutions with such bad, outdated arguments. It just gets in the way, slows down the world's general improvement.
Posted by JohnDowdell at May 17, 2007 6:16 AM