DSF

that's all we know or can find online
html5 is a future. but for now flash is most popular advert platform. millions $ spend on flash adverts every year. you've lost a point trying to prove something unnecessary.
1st:
my product on website with photo supported by flash which can be bit annoying for "gadgets" users (which are small % of buyers anyway) but catching eye and giving better experience of products for potential buyers

against

2:
my product on website with photo

why to avoid something simple and accessible for everyone. I had problems with one website on my laptop so I went to second room to browse it on PC. c'mon everybody has an options. I don't believe in loosing customers by adding flash to website as everyone else does think positive, how many customers you can convince to your product.
html5 - yes, but no freelance (cheap) programmers yet

kris_hm;14031 wrote:why to avoid something simple and accessible for everyone.

Because it's not accessible to everyone, as I've demonstrated more than once. You're missing the point of the discussion.

If people simply want to focus on users with laptops and desktops with full web-browsers that are supported by Adobe, and not concern themselves with the millions of potential customers who use other internet devices, then that's their choice and I wouldn't dream of trying to change their minds.

My only intent is to highlight that there are many people who use devices that cannot display Flash and that this situation is unlikely to improve. That's all.

not accessible for device doesn't mean not accessible for user
end of last year adobe presented to the public flash to html5 converter. what a fantastic tool ! without any programming skill you can convert flash files (source files: fla) to html5 code. They didn't announced released date yet but that will be a milestone

kris_hm;14041 wrote:end of last year adobe presented to the public flash to html5 converter. what a fantastic tool !

If Flash is the future, why do Adobe feel the need for a converter? Their development of this converter indicates that even the creators of Flash know that HTML5 is the future.

A converter for existing Flash files is great, but why would anyone spend time developing in the old format today knowing that it'll need to be converted into HTML5 later?

Surely it would make more sense to just create in HTML5 in the first place and avoid the need to convert?

there's a lot of things you can do on flash but still not html5- thats the main reason.
another is programming, as flash is more user friendly and you can do nice and interesting things without knowing a single line of the code. just playing about with graphic objects. that's why in many cases it will be easier to make flash and convert to html then write many lines of complicated code