These workarounds ensure IE users can view interactive content as you intend -- even after Microsoft changes its browser.
Eolas Technologies won its patent infringement case against Microsoft,
and in response, Microsoft has had to alter the way its browser handles
interactive content, such as that provided by Macromedia Flash, Apple QuickTime
and RealNetworks.
Rather than just displaying the content, IE users will soon be presented
with a dialog box – asking if the user would like to accept the interactive
content -- each time any new interactive content is to be displayed. On some
pages, the dialog box will actually appear multiple times before the page will
display appropriately, resulting in a less-than-optimal interactive experience
for IE users.
Microsoft, as well as interactive component vendors such as Macromedia,
Apple and RealNetworks, have come up with manual workarounds that site
publishers can use to avoid their visitors being deluged with browser dialog
boxes.
The changed browser will prompt the user before displaying active content
that has been coded using <object>, <embed>, or <applet> tags
in an HTML file. Site publishers need to replace these tags with a script that
calls code outside of the HTML page in order for interactive content to work as
expected in the changed version of IE.
* For instructions from Apple, go here.
* For instructions from
Macromedia, go here .
* For instructions from RealNetworks, go here.
Users will not see any changes until they upgrade to the latest version
of IE, which will not be available until January 2004, at the earliest. For more
information, visit Microsoft’s page on the browser changes here.
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