OK Garrett,
I pulled up and looked at the source of a flash file.
If you call that useful I'd like to know what isn't useful.

Now, the source code above is from a Flash MX swf file. Flash Player 6 presents the information. This has been done since Flash MX came out, but still it's junk.

There are people that say that Flash MX is accessible to the disabled. Well, la-de-da. You show me a person that can understand that garbage. For Flash to be accessible all the animation must be removed. So, who wants to do a Flash presentation if it can't be animated and have text flying across the screen?

And now you're going to tell me that Flash is going to stand up against a properly designed page using proper HTML, XHTML and CSS coding?

And as Clint317 pointed out, who in their right mind would be looking for text inside an SWF file? They want information that can be found through normal searches like "web design company". Google hasn't been able to join framed pages; so what makes anyone think Google can join SWF files with their parent HTML file? Do the first and I might believe they can do the second.

Flash files will never be as highly optimized as standard web page.

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