Microsoft has pretty much always gone their own way when it came to rendering web pages in Internet Explorer. In the early days it was common to see "Best viewed with Internet Explorer" on most web pages. Microsoft had their own version of HTML [ at least there were IE only tags ]. To be honest some of the things you could do with Microsoft's version I sometimes felt should have been standard. It wasn't until Styles came around that some of those things could be easily done across all browsers. I heard something about this a while back. Not using Windows, anything Flash has always been a pain in the ___ as far as I'm concerned. Sometimes it works and sometimes it won't. Usually if the page relies only on Flash I just move on to another page and won't go back. (Wired.com) -- In an abrupt about-face in its mobile software strategy, Adobe will soon cease developing its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers, according to an e-mail sent to Adobe partners on Tuesday evening. And with that e-mail flash, Adobe has signaled that it knows, as Steve Jobs predicted, the end of the Flash era on the web is coming soon. Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/09/tech/mobile/adobe-mobile-flash-wired/index.html For the future I feel that it is best to "Keep It Simple Stupid". The simple things always seem to work in all browsers and all operating systems. Things I did fifteen years ago still work just like they are supposed to. They work just as well in Firefox v15.x as they did in Internet Explorer v1.x. Will pages that use Flash still work fifteen years from now. I dunno, but I'm thinking they won't look as good as they do now on a fifteen year newer browser without Flash support. Just something to think about. On 05/12/2012 09:56 AM, Ronald Mesnard wrote: > > Microsoft has chosen discord instead of unity. They are hoping that they may gain back their market share by doing just that. > The next version of internet explorer will not use adobe product such as flash. I think that alone will cure them of this notion. Very few companies will rewrite their web pages by removing all their very capable Flash objects to bug-ridden Silverlite objects and not be usable by the majority of browsers. Users even now have several browsers on their desk top. Soon they will really need them just to be able to use particular sites. > > If you prefer to keep to the cutting edge, be prepared to actively maintain it as the standards change with time. Also do not expect half the browsers to work unless your server hosts PHP and you present HTML targeted for the specific browser used. I would just use Photoshop to make gradient images not not have to worry what browsers will work for my site. > -- “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”. - Patrick Henry - _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._