Guest Author - Stephanie L. Watson Most people who pay attention
to the emerging world of technology and gadgets might be
familiar with Apple’s famous hardline stance on refusing to
configure its iOS products to play Flash in mobile Safari web
browsers, seemingly more than willing to cut off iPhone and iPad
users from such things as embedded videos and Zynga games on
Facebook, while other smartphones such as Android and Blackberry
systems are more than willing to make Flash enabled mobile
browsers. Apple’s explanation was that Flash was buggy, used too
much battery life and was on its way out anyway. Some mention
was even made of the emerging technology from Microsoft,
Silverlight, as a replacement for Flash, and that web designers
should start optimizing their web pages for Silverlight instead
of Flash. To further understand what you, as a web designer,
should do about the Flash vs. Silverlight debate, and which to
choose for your own web design, it is important to understand
the basics of both. To begin wit