Apple, Macromedia & Real publish workarounds to IE changes
Following the legal ruling a few weeks ago, Microsoft has published plans to update Internet Explorer by early next year. The most significant change to the browser is the way it handles active content (i.e. plug-in driven content such as Flash, QuickTime, Real Video/Audio, PDF’s etc.), in order to comply with the Eolas patent infringement ruling.
Following this announcement, Apple, Macromedia and Real have been swift to publish documents explaining how web developers should proceed in (re-)authoring pages that utilise their technology.
The workarounds look simple enough - using Javascript functions in an external js file to write out the <object> and <param> tags, but it’ll take a massive effort by web developers and authors to update all instances of active content before the updated version of Internet Explorer is issued.
Other web browsers not affected by the ruling, such as Firebird, Camino, Safari and Opera, should display active content through the workarounds just fine. Unless of course, you have disabled Javascript...
Posted 4 years, 11 months ago on 8th October 2003.
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Comments
would that work? I thought that it will throw the alert any time it encounters the tags... even if they are not invoked.
Igor · 4 years, 11 months ago
As far as I know Igor, the alert happens when the control is invoked - so I assume that ‘embed’ and ‘object’ tags within ‘noscript’ tags are ‘safe’, until invoked by a user having javascript switched off.
This is my reading of the situation but I’m willing to be corrected...
Phil · 4 years, 11 months ago
To counter people with javascript turned off, it looks like we’ll have to resort to placing standard ‘object’ and ‘embed’ tags within a ‘noscript’ tag. Then the person would have to click through the alert boxes warning that you’re infringing the Eolas patent. Not the most elegant solution in the world...
Phil · 4 years, 11 months ago