I support the intranet for a 7000 person company, and put up a help page telling them to use OGV (for Firefox on Windows. Linux and Solaris) and WMV (for IE).

<video src="filename.ogv" autoplay="true" controls="true">
...code for IE7 users...
<video>

Firefox reads the video tag and ignores the inside of the video container, and IE7 ignores the video tag and reads the 10 lines of WMV code.

Voila, no more flash.

I feel embarrased that a dutch university spent time on this obvious fact...

And proud because the dutch girls are pretty enough to cause this effect, ;-)

Disclaimer: I'm dutch.

My site kayakfun.info (dutch-language site about whitewater kayaking, so no tech-bias) runs Webalizer stats so I only see the top 15 agents, amid lots of bots, but here is the summary from feb 2009 to jun 2009:

• IE total went from 44% to 37% (-19%)
• Moz 5 (Fx and Safari people explained above) went from 12% to 18% (+50%)
• Opera 8.5 went from 0.9% to 2.5% (+170%)
• IE6 dropped from 13 to 9%
• IE7 dropped from 30 to 23%
• IE8 went from 1 to 5%

So "collapsing" ? No, IE total is just slowly degrading for evolutionary reasons, most likely asymptotically approaching zero after a long time. I sincerely hope IE6 and 7 drop out of the top15 really soon, IE8 is not that bad.

This is too close to April fools day to take it seriously.

We had this guy who got laid off, and left to finish work for the remaining 4 weeks, as editor of the company newsletter. He managed to let the first characters of every line in the first article say " sucks", so that if you placed a piece of paper over the rest of the sentence it would stand out clearly. Only after it returned from the printer he told us.

A few years later, when the boss that fired him had moved on and we had another boss, he reapplied for his job. When the new boss heard the story, he did not even want to see the CV. His comment "once a loose cannon, always a loose cannon".

In these networked times, you never ever burn your bridges.

The fact that in all MS programs you can never resize those popups with too-wide info, and then does not even include sideways scroll bar, is beyond my understanding. Surely most programmers at MS themselves must have noticed this, and then all of them decided to NOT fix it.

Using Linux at home, I know how it could and should be, and you blaiming their inability to fix unresizable windows on UI design rules is an eye opener.

Someone in the MS design department actually thought about it and made it illegal for MS programmers to resize popup windows so that we all feel how it is to be disabled????

That was just the trailer, they gave you $10 to rent the whole video so you can see how it ends (just in case you never saw porn and don't know how they all end).

If I wanted to be treated like a criminal, I'll become one.

The assumption that all foreigners are (potential) terrorists is a slap in the face of hospitality.

And it totally disregards the fact that there are quite some criminals among USA residents.

And then consider that the USA owns a prison where you can be held without any trial or human rights, and that the USA is vetoing all UN resolutions against Israel that would lead to peace in the middle east...

I said it before, americans are mostly nice people, but their government are still living in the cold war times. Luckily there are still a lot of other really nice countries that welcome my tourist euros.

The parent is soooo right. Israel gets a blank check to do whatever they like from the USA. The USA is vetoing all UN resolutions that would force Israel to do it's part in ending this tragedy.

Now it's time for us to step in like we did in South Africa. Boycott any product coming from Israel. And kick them out of the Eurovision song festival. It's not like Israel is part of Europe anyway. We are civilised.

My grandfather hid jews in the cellar of his Amsterdam shop in the second world war. How can people who have suffered so much turn 180 degrees and become the suppressors themselves? Put up concentration camps (Gaza) and security fences on land that does not belong to them?

The Hamas are no sweethearts, but given the circumstances, what do they have to loose? If Israel follows all UN resolutions, and the Gaza harbour and airport functions again, then the Palestinian middle and working class will kick out Hamas. Israeli hardliners love Hamas and Hamas loves them, because otherwise they would die.

Give land and work to the Palestinians, then they will become addicted to wealth like us, giving up the wish to become a martyr, because they have too much to loose.

Doesn't surprise me a bit.