Flash intros are the bane of users. Users hate waiting for them to load and about 90% of users skip them anyway. Whenever I see a Flash Intro, I bail out of the site because I don’t want to wait for the site to load. This means you are losing site traffic right away and users aren’t ever getting an opportunity to view your products or services pages. We always tell our clients not to use them because, besides being usability nightmares, they usually cost quite a bit and don’t add any value to your site.

Perhaps the only audience who actually watches these things are marketing people. That’s because these pieces are vanity spots touting a company’s value. Your users aren’t marketing people and your Flash Intro is not going to convince them to buy your products or services. Plus, users have seen so many of these in the ’90s that they are no longer cool.

Do your bottom line and your users a huge favor and don’t add a Flash Intro to your site. Your traffic will improve dramatically and so should your sales and leads.

I am surprised with the anger you are showing. Every one can have different viewpoint and experience.

We are here to help each other. If I have some wrong experience with some application, it doesn’t mean every one to agree with.

You can see many comments against and some have even more reasons to not use Flash like @gino.

I am not against using Flash, neither i am of opinion that problems in a technology cannot be overcome. Please be positive and help the friends like @gino to get their problems solved about Flash.

Interesting to me is that this is one of those articles that tries to write against a phenomenon that can’t be stopped. And even better, it tries to list technical arguments against it. If you have a look at what the customers demand is you can’t win with all your standardized markup in the future. There are already requirements that can’t be done in HTML, AJAX, etc. So, we build mixed implementations where parts are already in Flash today. The next step is thinking about to get a better desktop behavior. So, a full-blown Flash application is the next logical step.

The adoption of Flex shows that this will change the frontend development dramatically in the next years. Discussions about the support of a back button become absurd, because the browser becomes a desktop that shows a single application window. All navigation is done by the application itself and not the browser. S

I will revise the article after making due re-search on points you have mentioned.

I highly appreciate your concern, and i hope you will read other articles also and give your valuable comments.

Under Every point, you described, you admitted that these issue are there but can be ignored to some extent using techniques.

I don’t want to stop Web Developers using Flash, but just want them to take care of these points. And I highly appreciate your response and comments.