When Users are Hurt by the "Flash-Killer" Talk

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I saw this while reading feeds and it was just too good not to post. I want to be clear that I’m not making fun of ‘Sharon T’, I just thought it was really interesting the perception that end users have after reading blogs, news articles and anything else about the RIA space. Anyway, she posted this question in the Technology Questions forum:

Is Silverlight meant to replace Flash and (or) Java? I uninstalled Java and Flash, installed Silverlight…but websites tell me I need to install Adobe Flash.

All of us still have a lot of informing to do, and luckily, she quickly got an answer to her question, so all is good.

[tags]Flash, Silverlight, Java[/tags]

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  • http://danny-t.co.uk DannyT

    Ha, soooo true. We all get so wrapped up in our geeky communities we frequently forget that the rest of the world actually thinks normally. It’s not Sharon T’s misunderstandings it’s our misrepresentation.

    If someone said to you “here’s sony’s answer to the washing machine” you wouldn’t think you’d need your old washing machine as well.

  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd John Dowdell

    Good catch, thanks. Those are real people out there, and we need to see things through their eyes.

    jd/adobe

  • Zee

    Begun the clone war has… the first casaulty we already have…

  • Patrick Whittingham

    A little knowledge is dangerous.

  • http://www.robtoole.com/blog Rob Toole

    I bet she couldn’t find the “Any Key” either, right?