Is HTML Dead?

[RedTomato]

Tokyoplastic.com ... eek!

Niceish the first time, but took me about 10 clicks and 7 flash animations to get to any actual info about what tokyoplastic were about or who they were or what they were selling.

If I had to check that website every few weeks, I'd be pulling my hair out

Strange that it won lots of awards

HTML is a long way from dead, especially in terms of disability access. In the UK, funding rules says that most websites from government funded organisations or charities must allow for disabled access. Things like adding captions to graphics and enabling use by screen readers for blind people etc.

I maintain a website for a deaf theatre company, and we've received a complaint from a deaf-blind guy about our images having no captions. That's gone on our list of things to do with our new Arts Council funding.

Images having captions (or alternative text) also makes them/the site come up better in Google search, so it will also benefit us.

 

[sk3pt1c]

tokyoplastic is a design company and that flash "minisite" is supposed
to show you their design skills, nothing else.
their store is housed on a normal html site i think.
what i meant was that it is the only site that was worth the wait because
their design is just out of this world.
that and a minisite Audi had made for the Q7

 

[840quadra]

I refuse to use Flash on any of my sites. I work with Motocross related content, and many of my surfers don't have high speed internet, and don't want to page through needless flashy junk to get to what information they need.

HTML - CSS will live long with these people, they get enough flashy, loud, annoying items on TV!

 

[phantasmagoria]

actually, my understanding is that sites are moving away from Flash back to HTML/CSS/etc.. because it is lighter, easier, more accessible and generally not nearly as much of a cheesy, aesthetic, pain in the ass that Flash is. .

That's precisely the way it seems to me. I can't remember a time that designing sites using concise, standards-compliant, accessible (X)HTML/CSS has been better promoted or even more "fashionable". Good thing too IMHO!