Pragmatic use of Safari often means that I don’t want to be bothered by flashing, blinking, fading, shading and other dirty tricks employed by flash developers to get website visitors to click on adverts. Click to flash does the trick - when you need a flash object, just click on it to allow it to load.

I’ve linked to the new version, about which Mr Gruber has a few fine words of explanation

I recently read this:

No set of labels or algorithms solves anything once and for all; any working system for showing data to the user is a bag of optimizations and tradeoffs that are a lot worse than some Platonic ideal, but a lot better than nothing.

The article (Thanks due to Mr Gruber for the link) is really about the recent outrage at Amazon’s metadata and indexing system, which was followed by many using the hashtag #amazonfail. However, the section that really stood out to me was the above simple truth about indexing and searching systems I talked about in my first post.