Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:05 pm
Didn't see anything posted on this yet, so here goes. I have been working on a site for our upcoming VBS, and was on tonight to finish off a few things and noticed that some of the active content wasn't so active. Applet hover buttons, rather than animating on hover would simply show a grey outline on mouse-over. Not knowing what was going on, I closed IE and reopened the page only to see the same thing. Reboot....same. Then I noticed when I hovered over the active content long enough I'd get a little tip message that read "Click to activate and use this control". That seemed odd, I hadn't changed any of my IE security settings. I went back through them anyway, and nothing. Upon searching on the text "Click to activate and use this control", I found several message boards that talked about this issue and it is actually the result of an Automatic Update published by Microsoft as part of the lawsuit with Eolas. Details here http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/oct03/10-06EOLASPR.mspx . Well that's nice. Anyway, it seems that web developers everywhere are having to update the way applets and flash content is referenced within webpages to circumvent this change. I went to the MSDN site that covers this topic in specific, here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp . Not being a real Java developer, it's pretty greek to me. If there's anyone on the boards familiar with this change and and can walk me through Loading Interactive Controls Externally on an example, I could take it and update the rest of the site.