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EDIT: to my previous post on content where i though I didn't pass the screening for the Philippine Web Awards. Luckily I did ^^ hooray for me!

I've been checking out the competition especially in my category and to no surprise most of them are flash based designs. I do like flash, the first flash site I saw was in the first ever Philippine Web Awards which I joined, and also motivated me to learn flash. Flash 4 was just coming out of its shell back then and it opened alot of doors in terms of presentation and design capabilities. But now a days web standards have grown leaps and bounds which makes it possible to do stuff you normally can't do without flash.

Personally I would like to see more developers do without flash and push the current scripting standards to their limits. Not because I am an anti-flash guy, but to just push the standards to the next level and let the browser manufacturers know that there are such things as standards, and that goes double for Microsoft. I already know flash can do great things, just look at 2advanced, Big Spaceship, and other foreign development firms. It's starting to become a cliche, I wanna see more sites like GMail or the new Yahoo Mail site which push the boundaries of the current scripting languages out there and at the same time introduce more technologies in the process.

Functionality and accessibility should be above aesthetics. I don't wanna debate the use of flash, rather to see what can be done with or without it. I use it on my current design for subtle effects but don't hinder the entire concept should there be no flash plug-in.