Microsoft Suck

So, here I am trying to pro bono rebuild a website for a local non-profit organisation and I decide to throw a little flash into the header title to make it more interesting. However, I have no idea until then that:

Microsoft recently lost a legal battle with a patent holder about the way Internet Explorer displays OBJECTs and EMBEDs in webpages. Microsoft then decided to update its Internet Explorer browser with changes requiring user input to display and activate ActiveX based media.

This affects Flash files, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java , Adobe Acrobat among others. It means users have to click the object first in order to activate its functions.

So, there is no smoothness of loading if you want to incorporate flash into your webpages and your users are using IE. Bloody Microsoft.