Stop Adobe Flash Petition

[Martin Tournoij]

Sign it here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html

The number of Adobe Flash sites are growing, and an increasing
amount of sites will simply cease to function when Flash is disabled
or unavailable. 

I would like to call to all web developers to (re)consider their use 
of Flash, while it does have place on the web, it is often used in the 
wrong way, on the wrong place, in a badly implemented manner. 

Why I dislike flash: 

o It often adds little or nothing to a website, most things can often 
be achieved with either CSS or Javascript (or a combination) which 
suffer from much less problems. 

o Flash is not usable, for example it often breaks the back button, 
"find in page" does not work, setting font size does not work, and 
many more. 

o Browser settings such as font size, enabling/disabled sound in web 
pages etc. do not apply to flash, leaving the page's designer, not the 
user, in control of the browser. 

o Flash is not accessible, screen readers, braille displays etc. often 
have serious difficulty accessing flash pages. 

o Progressive enhancement is difficult to achieve with flash, unlike 
for example CSS or Javascript, flash is binary data which interacts 
poorly with HTML. 

o Flash is not supported on all operating systems, and only on a very 
limited set of architectures. 

o Flash is slow, if you do not have a new $1000 PC but a somewhat
older "office PC" flash can be a serious performance hit. 

o There are a number of security issues with flash, and Adobe has 
never seemed to quick/concerned to fix them. 

o Animation is annoying, I want to access information, not watch a 
"cool" animation. 

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

-- 
Martin Tournoij
carpetsmoker at rwxrwxrwx.net
http://www.daemonforums.org

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