I can't decide whether your post should be wrapped in <sarcasm> tags or not. Absolutely everything you have said goes against modern HTML/CSS/JS best practices. The table element should only be used for displaying... wait for it... tabular data!

Also, why would you think Flex was free when there are clearly marked "Buy Now" links all over the Adobe product page? Yes there is a free SDK available, but anybody with any sense at all would know that Adobe is a company that makes money. I just don't know why you switched your whole project over to Flex when you hadn't even spent more than 5 minutes researching it.

I'd like to know the name of the company you work for so that I can know to steer clear.

I don't remember the last time Flash crashed my browser. Poorly written JavaScript takes down Firefox far more frequently for me.

The only thing that really gives me grief is Adobe Reader, but that's easily fixable by using the PDF Download add-on for Firefox or using a different PDF reader, like Foxit.

And how do you know that? Yes they've announced the software updates, but they haven't denied nor confirmed that there will be a hardware upgrade this summer.

Personally I'm holding out for the next hardware upgrade. I have an iPod Touch and I love it, but the CPU is just too slow to make rendering rich web pages an enjoyable experience.

The guys over at Splash Damage have a good sense of humour too. I found this in one of the scripts for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars:

// DAVE THE LARGE BROKEN DOOR STATE CHANGE NEEDS TO HAPPEN HERE
// DAVE ISN'T A LARGE BROKEN DOOR, WHO WROTE THIS

People use the something-to-JS compilers because it lets them remain in their comfort zone. While things are changing, a lot of programmers have no respect for JavaScript as a language and that's mostly due to the crappy scripts that are floating around that web.

Most people don't know that JavaScript is an incredible language with features like lambdas and closures; features that are found in functional languages like Scheme and Lisp. It's also one of the most object-oriented languages I've ever worked with where objects can be defined inline with properties added and removed at runtime. It actually gets quite complex with its prototypal inheritance pattern which is a real mind bender for people who were trained to use classical inheritance.

I'm not saying that it's perfect but there's a great deal of depth in it that's made it one of the most interesting languages I've ever learnt.