Flash Player
In its present form the design of my game site does not employ Flash. Many developers suggest using it and I am always open to using efficient technologies that make a site operate faster.

I would like to know you thoughts on using Flash. Personally, I'm not big on it. Thank you.

I'm no expert on Flash, but from what I know about it, I have no problems with using a Flash-based web game. You may need to offer a "non-Flash" FAQ page to help users configure their browsers for Flash (because, as I understand it, some browsers by-default suppress Flash content). But, if it makes for a faster and better game, I'm more than happy to tweak my browser to support it.

fer shure, dude.

I voted 'Yes' even though I hesitate a bit.

Having a slight color deficiency I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish some colors i Risk, primarily between blue and purple, especially if the country in question is small, like Iceland or Indonesia.

When I have problems now I can look into the html-code and decide from that what color it is. This will be impossible if the graphic is flash-based as I understand it.

Peace, I remember you giving us examples of the colors you where about to use in the game earlier. I found no problems distinguishing them. Will you keep to those colors?

Yes I will keep those colors, and furthermore, I have added a feature that allows a player to highlight all the territories of a specifc color so you can tell which is which.

I voted no.

I think its one of those "fad" technologies. It looks good to end users but isn't always that practical.

lol

i would say that ajax or ruby might be fad technologies but flash has been around for quite some time.

<STARTS NERD WAR 2006>

Flash is the devils work
I beleive everything bad about Flash in this site;

http://www.uservision.co.uk/usability_articles/usability_flash.asp

and dont beleive a word of the positive things!

Note: I didnt actually read it all ;-P

I beleive everything bad about Flash in this site;

http://www.uservision.co.uk/usability_articles/usability_flash.asp

and dont beleive a word of the positive things!

Note: I didnt actually read it all ;-P

OK.... then we should disable whole Flash idea.
Depate dismissed !!!

LEAVE !!! THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE ANYMORE

Actually i think Flash could be good thing IF used version which working EVERY operating system.
Version 7 was for Linux too and now is newest version 9(just beta).
There was version 8 which wasnt available for Linux ,but many sites needed that to working :-/, so...

i'm running windows 3.1 and my other machine is OS2/WARP and flash doesn't work so it must suck moose testicles. </slashdot moron>

i'm with you, urp. wine or vmware is your friend in cases of that kinds of stuff.

honestly, the only flash i really run into these days is on advertisements.

i'm with you, urp. wine or vmware is your friend in cases of that kinds of stuff.

I know, i used FF with wine when i had problems with Flash8, but it isnt right solution if i need to "emulate" windows programs to see things in NET.

It needs to work with "basic" systems, not only with wine.

i was teasing, joesse. those are probably the only os's that i don't use.

http://www.missdewey.com/
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flash based search engine. everyone but haggisbrain is allowed to check it out. *grin*

I'm smitten.