Restaurants + flash website + mobile = FAIL!
When will restaurants realize that full flash websites suck for those of us on the go?
Situation: I'm out with friends wondering where we should go for lunch. Someone says, "Let's try XYZ restaurant". I pull out my blackberry. Other non-descript friends pull out their iPhones and we get to XYZ Restaurant's website. Guess what? It's a FULL FLASH site. None of us can render it and we all groan and go to some other directory like Yelp, CitySearch, menupages..etc.
How do we get the word to web designers/programmers who do restaurant websites that they need to do 2 versions of the website: Mobile and everything else.
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Adam
I personally think restaurants is the perfect audience for flash, as in building the right atmosphere and setting the mood. But of course its a matter of resposibility for us as flash developers to perform a graceful degrading on our flash websites. I mean, if the cms system is right, its "really" easy to have the data applyed as secondary content, working for both mobile and simplier browsers.