> Microsoft wants us to tweak our pages, and it's making me nauseous. > I read some disturbing news about IE's Active X controls today, due to some legal issues with a patent Microsoft has changed the way of implementing active x controls which no longer allows for automatic start of an Active X control. The user will forced to an extra click for a Flash file to start playing. > I'm hoping I have misunderstood this but it doesn't look like it. Sounds like a nightmare to me, apparently the only way to get around it would be to use an external JavaScript which is more or less outrageous to do if you ask me. > This update will be available through Microsoft Security patches and they expect the majority to have this update within 6 months. > Can somebody please tell me I'm wrong? ;) > Here is the news at CNET: > http://news.com.com/2100-1032-6044418.html?tag=tb > Here is the MSDN article for how to "fix" this with a little JS: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp Seems genuine enough. God the quality of the fixes is just appalling. Why don't they check what is going on and offer UFO as a solution? http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/ -- Chris Heilmann Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/