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Flash buttons

What sur­prised me from last night present­a­tion, was people’s pos­it­ive reac­tion to using flash in but­tons. You will have to excuse the trashy anim­a­tion, cod­ing and css it was put toether fairly quickly late at night. I should be mak­ing use of altern­at­ive con­tent for non-flash enabled browsers, but this is just proof on concept.

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5 Responses to “Flash buttons”

  1. Miles Burke Says:
    March 31st, 2006 at 1:28 pm

    I still reckon flash for such an import­ant ele­ment of a page makes me feel dirty. Kay will no doubt roll out 5 web­sites next week using it, but not me.

  2. nick Says:
    March 31st, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    Miles, I would use some­thing like Geoff Ste­arns’ Flash Object javas­cript to replace a static back­ground image with the flash anim­a­tion. I would also make sure the but­ton made sense for a user, without flash and with images turned off. (ie no white text on a white back­ground, that does occur here).

  3. Kay Smoljak Says:
    April 9th, 2006 at 5:37 pm

    I’m a bit late here, sorry, still catch­ing up on all my feeds. Flash with proper access­ible altern­ate con­tent should work for every single per­son in the known uni­verse. I’m just excited by the pos­sib­il­it­ies. And a vector-based flash movie will be much smal­ler in file size than an enqui­val­ent JPG which is large enough to look good when resized.

    And hell, it’s just cool.

  4. Sone Says:
    September 1st, 2006 at 6:57 am

    1st of all, how much does it suck that when i roll over your (hor­rible, non-button look­ing) flash anim­a­tion, the cursor does not change to the lil hand that 98.9% of users recog­nize as a link.
    Nick ― except it is a but­ton for sub­mit­ting forms not a link
    Why Flash only for but­tons? I’m so tired of usab­il­ity evan­gel­ists talk­ing bad about Flash. Full Flash anim­ated web­sites have a great reason for exist­ing on the web.
    Nick ― Except for full flash sites you can’t see the con­tent if you work for a cer­tain gov­ern­ment depart­ment or use a phone or Linux 64 bit machine to access the web. Not every­body accesses the web the same way as you
    Nick ― plus there are very few people cap­able of cre­at­ing access­ible Flash con­tent
    they do everything that html css and even AJAX can­not do…
    besides not all AJAX is up to standards.

    and why is it that alot of these usab­il­ity guys have such ugly web­sites >cough

    why do usab­il­ity guy’s web­sites never validate???

    yours has 8 errors..
    Nick ― actu­ally it is only five errors on this page and that is a small bug in Word­Press com­ments script and me a usab­il­ity guy?

  5. RE Mogul Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 8:41 am

    Script­ing cap­ab­il­ity bey­ond the but­ton element!

    But can flash cre­ate but­tons that can be read by robots?

    Embra­cing the Screen-Reader would be: Applaud­able & Just!

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