Perhaps what the world needs is an incredibly clever bit of flash programming that would work on old browsers but perfectly render a website to the latest standards.

You’d have to make sure that all the typical user interface methods – selecting text, printing, hot keys etc, all worked in the exact same method, but I believe this is achievable.

Effectively Flash would be being used as an ‘online browser’ in the same way that Google Docs is an ‘online word processor’.

Forget for a moment that generally old-school geeks think of Flash as a painfully slow, non-friendly experience and imagine that some geniuses did a bang-up job of it… it could work.

Everywhere else its Firefox for me.

Sadly, this wasn’t the case when I worked directly in local government. I was told I could not use Firefox on my work system, and was often frustrated by the limitations of IE.

I’ve never understood LG resistance to OpenSource “products”. Surly a public sector organisation would want to encourage free and collaborative software?

As an IT tutor doing first steps ICT, I found it frustrating that many ICT qualifications required the use of MS Applications and that we could not install OpenOffice on student computers.