On AIR with Flex

You hear of new software’s to browse the internet before you know it, be it new browsers or new versions. But how many of these really run the code on your website as expected? In spite of the W3C’s (World Wide Web Consortium) attempts to establish common standards, not many browsers comply, not to mention the oldest browser around, Internet Explorer. At the same time, you cannot expect users to use a W3C compliant web browser. Ask a newbie if s/he knows what Firefox is. “Fire… What?” would be an expected answer. If you are building a website, make sure its runs on atleast the popular browsers around, IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari.

Here I list a few browser compatibility problems I’ve faced, and how I managed to solve them.
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