Why shouldn't I use Flash?

Question

I\'ve heard many times that I should avoid flash for my website. Yet no one has told me a good reason for this. I\'ve searched for reasons and I see many that are not true (such

Answer 1

Most modern netbooks and some old computers' performance is still OK from internet browsing and document editing and a lot of people are not going to replace their computers to the powerful ones as they are happy with what they have got. But since Adobe Flash v10+ and windows audiodg.exe process introduction Flash object in the browser caused that these computers stop responding. This causes that websites loses their visitors when the website is rebuilt to be a Flash based application. As an example store.nike.com can be given. Even on Windows XP a single core systems with CPU up to 1.6 GHz are not good to browse this website.