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Why do website designers often feel the need to use flash to represent content that could easily be displayed using simple HTML and standard web technologies. Not all platforms support flash and I would much prefer to be able to view content that should be regularly viewable with a non-flash enabled browser (not to mention the fact that I disable flash by default on all my browsers). Don't get me wrong, Macromedia (now Adobe) did add rich capabilities to the web by introducing Flash and Shockwave, but that functionality is specialized and should have no place in displaying images and text when that is the principle content.