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Re:Markup language that generates Flash by brianobush on Thursday December 17, 2009 @06:41AM (#1000833)
agreed. flash is a pain to handle with crawling and indexing. would love to see a trend away from flash, not to it.
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Re:Markup language that generates Flash by est on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:32AM (#1001064)
On the other hand dynamically generated Flash captcha is a pain in the ass to crack.
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Re:Markup language that generates Flash by RyanMcGreal on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:54AM (#1001107) 

    s/crack/use
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Re:Markup language that generates Flash by est on Thursday December 17, 2009 @10:20AM (#1001151)
Can I ask why? My theory is because it's hasn't grown to an active technology community yet.
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Re:Markup language that generates Flash by RyanMcGreal on Thursday December 17, 2009 @12:32PM (#1001422)
Image captchas suck, period. I'm not sure if there's a better way to distinguish humans from bots, but forcing people to parse an image of distorted letters and type them into an input box is lousy for usability/accessibility no matter how you slice it.
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Re:Markup language that generates Flash by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 17, 2009 @11:35AM (#1001291)
Better SEO was one of their stated aims.
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