What's Going on With Flash?

In case you hadn't noticed yet, many sites that contain Flash (and certain other media types) content are acting a bit strangely these days. In Internet Explorer, when you put your cursor over the content a surrounding rectangle appears and, to get the controls to work, you need to click it once first. Worse things have happened, but this is quite annoying and doesn't look great.

Without getting technical, this downgrade to IE has been looming for a few years. It's known as the Eolas ruling. Click here if you're interested in reading the details.

So, what can you do to fix this problem? You'll either need your web developer to do some JavaScript coding or, if you're an eager do-it-yourselfer, here's what Microsoft suggests.