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Originally posted by Wilber:
my biggest concern has always been that GoogleBOT and such spiders don't speak Flash.
Yea, you can build html around the *.swf but all the wasted text that the bots could have picked up....it's a shame.
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For paysites - which is where you'd bother using it i don't know how much HTML text you see anyway... it's all integrated into bitmaps - ie what the swf would be replacing - i for one at least, don't see shite on front or tour pages that wouldn't be just as easy to add around a swf. Macromedia is working with the search engines at the moment to get *all* flash content indexed.. F6 will hold a few surprises too.. (thank christ they're finally integrating video properly)
If you see sites that aren't loading quickly then they're poorly designed.. OR the bloody client has asked for too much and theres not a lot you can do about that when they want their whole frikkin summer product line in the first 5 seconds.. you just shut up and take the money... you can give them good counsel and try to steer them away from things like flash intros, but when they're obstinate i have no problems taking the lucre to produce a slower than wanted site. For all your stewardship you have to accept sometimes that the customer is right - even though they wouldn't know a good webpage if it had nasal sex with them.
[This message has been edited by bhutocracy (edited 12-08-2001).]