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With the launch of Flash 10 there is a P2P technology Stratus built right into flash. When it was launched I was not really interested in it as it takes time to deploy the latest flash runtime. But in less than an year Flash 10 has been deployed on more than 90% of the systems worldwide (According to these stats on adobe.com ). I personally don't like flash but flash is not just about animations and videos. Its a lot more than that. And these things are what will keep flash alive even after the onslaught of "HTML5". The problem is HTML5 is made out to be this magical solution that will rid the world of Flash. Unfortunately with people like Steve Jobs promoting HTML5 as the solution to all Flash problems most people blindly start to believe it. The reason Flash really works is that the deployment is so large and most people have it installed even if they don't know about it. iPhone got away without using flash as they had partnered with Google when they first launched...

I like things which look and feel like my OS. But I have rarely come across a site which looks and feels like an application running on my computer. Not like they are supposed to look like that but I have still been trying to figure out how they would look if the site could automatically change according to the user settings. In my quest to figure this one out, the first and the foremost thing to look at are the fonts. Most browsers have the magical property which allows you to get the font settings on the OS. This line should be in the menu font. This line should be in the caption font. On most browsers you should see the first line rendered with the font used in the menu 's and the second line rendered in the font used in the caption 's. Funny thing caption does not work in FireFox it works in Opera and IE. Getting down to the code its just a one line code. Just set the font property to menu or caption and thats all that you need to do. font: menu; font: caption; That is...