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Miscrosoft IE changing...
Seph|roth:
From Sitepoint:
--- Quote ---"Eolas Technologies Inc. is the company that first invented and now owns the rights to external programs running seamlessly within a Web browser. Never heard of them? Don't feel bad -- neither had I until their recent legal action against Microsoft. But way back in 1994 they demonstrated the technology with a modified version of the NCSA Mosaic 2.4 browser and patented the technology so that big companies like Microsoft couldn't take it away from them. In 1995, they released their own browser called WebRouser, which demonstrated the technology.
As the owners of the technology, they are entitled to require licensing fees of any company that wants to implement their own version of the technology in their products. The recent legal battle was to determine if Microsoft should have paid those fees, or if (as it claims) it developed the plug-in technology on their own before Eolas filed for the patent.
Well, Microsoft lost the case. But rather than pay the licensing fees on the technology, it has decided to modify Internet Explorer so that it no longer infringes on the patent. Unfortunately, these changes mean that every plug-in on a page (i.e. Flash movies, Java applets, PDF documents, etc.) will require the user to click click on a message box..."
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read more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/activexchanges.asp
Tony Reid:
Im sure there will be a registry hack to fix this :)
Seph|roth:
--- Quote from: Coyote on October 15, 2003, 03:52:08 AM ---Im sure there will be a registry hack to fix this :)
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useless, not everyone will apply such a hack, and website developers have to make sure as many people as possible are able to view your site without a hassle.
Tyris:
well... I don't use any of em anyway :-\
tho I must admit losing flash is a realy bugger for many people.... I mainly dont use it coz I dont see the point in doing it at my skill level...
would it be one click per session...?
and doesn't Macromedia's software do it for them...? as apposed to the browser...?
Tony Reid:
hmmmmm damn microsoft :(
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