Say Goodbye to FLASH Buttons?!

Previous posts I've seen on the subject of Flash Button
extensions indicate that these options have been removed in the CS4
version!
One of the MODS wrote:
David Powers(Moderator)December 1, 2008
James, Flash text and Flash buttons were removed for several
reasons. First of all, they were quite primitive in the effects
they created. More importantly, many inexperienced designers used
them without understanding the implications of embedding text and
navigational elements in Flash. Any Flash elements need the user to
have the Flash player embedded in their browser. Although Flash
Player is very widespread, its use is not 100 percent universal. As
a result, such people see no content or navigation if everything is
embedded in Flash elements. If you understand how to use Flash, you
should create such elements in Flash CS4 Professional or Flex.
If this is true then I would like to be the one to decide
whether I should use this option for the Web I'm creating!
I'd really hate to manually have to add these codes into
everypage, and although I've used Dreamweaver since it's first
version, doing this may perhaps get me to re-evaluate whether or
not to switch to MS Expression which will me a hassle but all the
same I will do!
Anyhow, I hope this get's fixed, cause I think all of the
extension options are an important part of the software! Alot of us
have been using the software since it was first released, have
bought numourus extentions for Dreamweaver and I think it sucks
that these options are not included since they have been a major
part of the software from the very beginning!
What I add into the Website is my business and I would think
it would be in Adobes best interest to support the features their
customers use!
Comments anyone? (Please me kind :)

CrazyCopyCat wrote:
> What I add into the Website is my business and I would
think it would be in
> Adobes best interest to support the features their
customers use!
This is the point, not that many people use this feature and
keeping it around takes time and effort to make sure it still works
in the new version of Dreamweaver, time and effort that would be
better spent on testing and updating features that are used, as
well as any new features being added.
Remember that noone is pulling the old version of Dreamweaver
off of your system, so you should still be able use the older
version to access the old feature.
Danilo Celic
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http://blog.extensioneering.com/
| WebAssist Extensioneer
| Adobe Community Expert

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