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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
The Disney site is pretty annoying to me.
I hate sites that have video with audio that play automatically on loading for one. And I'm not big on sites with animated menus etc. in general.
My only really need/use for Flash is video and some Facebook games etc. as I tend to prefer more simple, text based sites for the most part. ESPN.com would be about the most complex/multi media type of site design that I can tolerate.
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And this is totally fine, of course. You may not be the audience for many of these sites, just like many who like Disney may not be interested in ESPN.
But the point is that the consumers should decide if they want to frequent a site or not. Right now, largely because of Apple's protectionism, we are seeing the unnecessary Balkanization of the web.
To point to Disney again, they have to create a regular site, a mobile site, and an iPad site. I do believe the iPad version is a nod to their largest shareholder, but nevertheless it serves to fragment to web.
My hope is that with the impending availability of Flash on most major mobile platforms, the need for mobile sites will lessen, and so will the fragmentation.
But the move to browser-embedded, proprietary video (H.264) is much more worrisome in the long run, as it will restrict commercial content viewing to commercial browsers only.
Apple, Microsoft and the content providers would love this, since it will potentially allow for DRM schemes built into your browser. With no open alternatives.