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Long Live The Suite
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join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
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| Why flash? Flash is evil, EEEVIL! And annoying as hell! Besides, Earthlink already had webmail, just what was wrong with the old one? Huh? I really hate Flash. It's not cool to have a site made entirely out of flash, it's annoying!
/rant...
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normat
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Boynton Beach, FL
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| Re: Why flash? said by sivran  :Flash is evil, EEEVIL! And annoying as hell! Besides, Earthlink already had webmail, just what was wrong with the old one? Huh? I really hate Flash. It's not cool to have a site made entirely out of flash, it's annoying! /rant... It's all in how it was developed. 95% of Flash apps are just "all flash". However, given a good developer you can have quite a good application. Problem is that most flash developers come from strictly a graphical design background and don't take good GUI design into consideration. | |
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jDyno
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join:2001-02-20
Washington, DC
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1 edit | Re: Why flash? Exactly. It's not the technology that's bad, it's the use of it. Saying all Flash is bad is like saying all digital photography is bad (as a way of arguing for film). The technology itself has nothing to do with whether the product produced with it is not good. Give me a break.
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join:2005-03-04
Woodstock, GA | I agree. Flash has come a long way, and with new development tools like Laszlo and Flex, it is being used to build real applications better than anything on the web already. I look forward to seeing this. | |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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| said by sivran :Flash is evil, EEEVIL! And annoying as hell! I agree, it makes even the most mundane tasks take longer. | |
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reflex9
join:2004-02-09 | And i thought that AOL was bad. Who on earth would create a Flash webmail application and pimp it like it were the next generation of web services? | |
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Siljanus
join:2000-12-13
Chevy Chase, MD |  Oooo! Flash mail!
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TexasGuy
49 States And Texas
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join:2002-12-02
Houston, TX
| Who cares... Not that their service will bring something new that you can't get now for free. It is like 25th brand of aspirin. I would understand if Earthlink would add something that is needed but not available anywhere else... Like 30MB attachments or something. Also, a flash site... It is a bad move.
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rahlquist
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join:2001-10-30
Villa Rica, GA
| Re: Who cares... I agree who cares, until the top 10 isp's dump pop in favor of forcing users to use their ad laden webmail interface....
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | Flash sucks... and 100MB...too little too late. Everyone who wants that kinda stuff already has GMAIL.
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Fountainhead
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join:2003-10-25
New York, NY
clubs: | Re: Flash sucks... Why am I paying for 10 mb of space on my earthlink account when they are going to give away a 1 gb?
My account may be getting deactivated soon..
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| said by oliphant :and 100MB...too little too late. Everyone who wants that kinda stuff already has GMAIL. I agree! Even Hotmail gives you 250MB... | |
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DrStrange
Technically feasible
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join:2001-07-23
West Hartford, CT | Now I have a reason! I wondered how I was going to justify building a Pentium 4 640-based system to replace my aging Dell P3.
Thanks, Earthlink [I think]. | |
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zoom314
Superman
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join:2001-04-30
Yermo, CA
| Ah Yes, Another email provider for Verizon to Ah Yes, Another email provider for Verizon to block, Unless They will use a compatible SMTP server with a compatible Server Authentication scheme of some sort.
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Chicago, IL | Earthlink I use to love Earthlink but with SBC so cheap it's hard to use them and validate the extra cost. | |
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logins_suck
join:2004-12-28
Two Rivers, WI | Hooray! More abusive flash crap  | |
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
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join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA | Re: Hooray! abusive? Just don't use the service, problem solved. I should be a consultant; that'll be $10000.
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averagedude
join:2002-01-30
Mesa, AZ | What about PDA's? I use a PDA.
To the best of my knowledge, PDA's don't support Flash.
I've tried and have not been able to get to work.
So anyone who uses a PDA can't check their mail?
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nil
Java Geek
join:2000-11-27 | Accessibility Why does everyone forget about accessibility when building websites? Screen readers don't work with flash.
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b_zen
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join:2002-07-24
Saint Louis, MO
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| How about blocking adverts? How will you control what you want to see and what you want to block such as advertisements?
Also, it is true that using an all-flash approach is wrong if not coded properly, I can only hope the dev team will at least consider a hybrid approach.
A great demonstration of how flash can spice up any web applications is available on... you guessed it, www.Macromedia.com... Can't find the area, but they have a pretty slick form in there; alternatively, you can check the "exchange area"...
Finally, many people don't like Flash because it takes eons to load on slow connections and/or because the noob-designer just made one mega movie/scene, instead of a collection of small, fast loading ones.
Earthlink wanna try a new approach, let them do it. I'll try it just to see how they implement it... Can't criticize a free service now come on 
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rchandra
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join:2000-11-09
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| another site ruined Just as JavaScript is abused mercilessly, Macromedia Flash is similarly used to obliterate perfectly fine sites. I've ceased being a customer of some businesses simply because they decided to convert their site to Flash. I can't think of a single sane reason why Flash needs to be involved AT ALL with reading email.
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