EDGE Redesign - Top reasons why I dont like it
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Before I start off with anything - Kudos to the design team of the EDGE Newsletter. All along these guys have been doing a wonderful job with the newsletter making bind blowing designs and high quality content. I have never missed a single issue of the newsletter till now and have been a big fan of both the design and content.
Coming back to the reason why I (personally) don’t like the new redesign. Most of you by now would have got a chance to look at the new edge redesign in HTML and CSS. The design still looks good but:
1) I would personally favor Flash against HTML or CSS. May be this is too personal (or may sound a bit vague) - but when I make presentations I feel very bad when I have to present a PowerPoint. There have been many instances where I just printed the PPT to a FlashPaper and used it for the presentation rather than the real PPT. When you are claiming that you are a Flash Developer it looks odd when you yourself don’t use Flash for presentation but use PowerPoint.
From this point of view - when the company which makes Flash itself feels that HTML and CSS are better and fast how could you sell the idea of using Flash for publishing to a client?
2) All through the video the only thing which stands out is that it makes production faster and easier. Agreed. But just have a look at both the Flash version and the HTML/CSS version side by side and it would be very visible that Flash content looks more professional and crisp rather than the CSS version - no popup's, no refreshs - just wait for sometime for it to load and you are ready to go.
3) In the Video someone told about making the page accessible. Of the time I spend with my clients selling a Flash based solution against a HTML based solution I spend 25% of the time explaining them how Flash contents CAN be made accessible. I would have been happy if Adobe spend some little extra time and made the Flash version accessible and show the world that Flash is capable of being made accessible.
4) Again a bit personal - Being a patriot of Flash all along I have spend hours arguing with people, that combined with the right technologies Flash is no lesser than any other development tool in the market and when I see Adobe itself not using Flash for their popular newsletter I was sortof depressed.
To sum it up all - I understand that the EDGE team wants to change their content creation workflow and fasten up the process for good- but guys if we don’t use our own tools how can we expect others to?