[TriLUG] OT: Flash web developers?

Peter Neilson neilson at windstream.net
Tue May 4 22:06:49 EDT 2010


Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> off. There's a sizable chunk of the population not annoyed by
> flamboyant intros. There's another sizable chunk that are. Think of it
> this way: do you enjoy businesses where the service staff sing a ditty
> every time somebody walks in? Do you know people who find that
> annoying? 

I am more or less equally annoyed by:
1) Up-front Flash.
2) Drive-up hamburger joints that greet me with "Wlcm-to-Brgrclown-wld 
you like to try the special mbrfbgr pszmffblt with the bzmmtfb sauce 
today?" (All I wanted, if they would let me speak, was to order a double 
cheeseburger, and I particularly didn't want to parse mbrfbgr pszmffblt.)
3) Companies with complicated and mandated phone-answering scripts not 
unlike the Burger Clown, where they could have said simply, "Good 
morning. Jones Printing Company."

The would-be Flasher needs to run tests on his own customers. I'll bet 
he's seen a competitor's Flash website and wants the same, without 
giving any thought to the effect on business, if any. Perhaps he should 
wait until the successor product, Flush, is developed that can pour 
actual wine samples over the Internet.




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