If you’ve read much of the Half Nut blog at all you’ll know I’m not a big fan of Flash. Flash in and of itself is not necessarily evil, but it’s so often misused that I’ve grown to dislike it immensely. So often navigation and patterns of the web are broken and/or misused.

I had a new client contact me today about building a web 2.0 site and it got me thinking that I couldn’t recall any well known web 2.0 web sites that have Flash on their home page. This alone is a good case against Flash. One of the goals of these new sites is to keep things simple and easy to use.

• Technorati - Flash for ads only
• 43 Things - No Flash
• Flickr - No Flash
• Picnik - No Flash
• Linkedin - No Flash
• Facebook - No Flash
• Rollyo - No Flash
• del.icio.us - No Flash
• Rollyo - No Flash
• Stumble Upon - No Flash
• You Tube - No Flash

Chances are if you take a quick look through your favorite web 2.0 website they won’t have any Flash or that Flash will not play any significant part in the site. I would venture to guess that one of the reasons is that many of these high-traffic sites don’t want the bloat associated with Flash.

Don’t get me wrong, Flash has it’s place and in the right hands I have seen some amazing things done with it. Those however are few and far between.

Am I wrong, let me know?

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