been against Flash before it was cool, but my complaints are about using it inappropriately. Today there is an ethnic cleansing-like movement to eliminate Flash from the face of the earth and the movement's leader is Apple's Steve Jobs. There are many technical issues with Flash like overheating CPUs , but the biggest force against Flash is HTML 5 and the web standards people who hate everything proprietary unless it comes from Apple. Going Straight: How To Ditch Flash and Embrace the Future of the Web has links to a lot of the background about Flash's weaknesses as well as tips on how to go Flash-free. Graphical Misuse / Misunderstandings There are only about a trillion ways to misuse graphics and images on your website. The following checklist lists some of the ways you can misuse graphics. Oh. If you check any of the items...well, you know what it means. These are simply tools. Remember, nobody gets excited about the tools used to build a house ("Please tell me what brand of hammers you used!"). People get excited about how the house looks and performs. The article 9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards provides interesting insights into the problem. Speaking of problems, the text doesn't show up in IE6 (could also occur because of ad-blocking software I'm using). Works fine in Firefox. Hmm. 16. JavaScript This is the most controversial of my selections because JavaScript is more often used for good than evil. The Number One problem with JS is