Javascript-Only Sites?

[eluser]alpar[/eluser]
When making use of Javascript and Flash think of SEO it with accessibility are very important and i don't see anybody mentioning them. as thurting said Flash is indeed more expressive, than html, but it's binary format that permits such expressibility is what pulls it back. Imagine if you could put your PHP in a flash like you do it with html, or if spiders could understand it like they do understand text, and besides many browsers have it (i'm not sure about 99%, i don't know any statistics but find it odd to have more flash players than Javascript enabled browsers), everybody would be jumping towards it.

Personally i avoid Flash as much as i can, and try to go with html, i also try to avoid JS but that's not always possible. A great place to use JS are the back ends, you can tell your client to use a JS enabled browser, to have way more functionality (don't forget to agree on that before you actually code anything )

The bottom line is that you shouldn't use nether Flash or JS to impress the user or to show how solid skills you have. Generally users are not technical so they care about finding what they need,and have the most functionality they can get.