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Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Subject: Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?
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Hi,

just send them an e-mail telling them that you are so sorry about the 
quality of their website that you have to buy somewhere else.

Do not send this to the webmaster, send it to the sales department.

Those people fight for the clients and give a shit on technology.

Erich

Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar cut a corner:
> 
>> but there are sites that you can't do anything without flash, as even 
>> navigation requires this.
> 
> True.
> 
>> this is just example of crap-design,
> 
> I agree. Although I don't think everybody will.
> 
>> and i simply don't view them..
> 
> I'm afraid it's not that simple. Counterexample:
> 
> When I was shopping for a new parachute rig, one of the manufacturers I was
> interested in turned out to have a Flash-only website. I could of course
> have decided not to buy there because their website sucks, but when it
> comes to equipment that's supposed to be going to save my life hundreds of
> times I'd much rather base the decision on the quality of the product than
> on the technical soundness of a website, thank you :-)
> 
> I don't mean to ridicule your principles, I merely mean to point out that
> in my opinion it's not always as black and white as you make it seem.
> 
> Alphons
>