Everybody better change their sites
 

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6044...4418&subj=news

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/ explains how to work around it.

Doesnt activex also install spyware / adware and such? I figure you guys would know a lot about that :)

Regards,

Lee

I don't even like having to click for activeX right now. I'm just that lazy.

That seriously sucks. Seriously.


Shit.

I'm kinda confused, does this affect the new flash video banners we see everywhere? If so that's a blow to web advertisers everywhere.

I would expect nothing from the peanut gallery.

The blog explains it. I believe that active x is also used for things such as windows media player and flash.

Damn this is huge

Time to start selling Adobe stock?

someone make an example of a fix

This isn't too hard to get around, however, it does impact almost every one of us. Any flash menus or other interactive objects will need changing, and embedded movies will need changing - it's the last one that gets most of us.

Read this: h t t p://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html (munged because i'm a n00b). It's a lot better at explaining how to get around the issue than the MS site is. Essentially it's not too hard - you write some JS that writes the embedding code to the document, then call the JS where you want to embed the object. It's a dirty workaround, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

software patents have to go!!!