Honestly, as a website dev during the height of flash&#x27;s dominance, I think you&#x27;re a little off with your hatred.<p>During this time, it was extremely rare to have a designer involved in website design (I can&#x27;t prove it, but I think you&#x27;ll see a correlation with the growth of template sites at the time, I broke my back trying to learn design and color theory at the time and I still can&#x27;t even draw a straight line freehand :) so what I normally had to deal with was the client as designer. Complete nightmare...<p>Here&#x27;s one anecdotal data point:<p>I was designing an eshop for a client. He demanded a long flash intro to the site. I tried to lead him through an idea-<p>You want customers?
Yes.
You want repeat customers?
Yes.
You want them to have to wait 30 seconds every time they shop to watch your intro?
Errr, yes!
Ok.....<p>So I snuck in a huge skip intro button on the flash intro...<p>Call from client:
&#x27;hey, my buddies tell me that the intro is ruined by a big button saying &#x27;skip intro&#x27;. Remove it now!!! It&#x27;s degrading the experience!!!&#x27;<p>I tried, but hey, I got paid, and his business suffered in the long run- and I mean went bankrupt...<p>I know of few developers at the time who wanted to do flash intros. It was normally forced on them...