On Jul 8, 2006, at 10:16 PM, James Mitchell wrote:

Please tell me you are kidding?? It's just Flash. What browser (and what security setting) would cause a prompt for viewing a simple flash movie?

Could it be related to this email I received the other day?

<snip>
So what exactly will appear at the bottom of your Flash files if you DON'T switch the way you embed your swfs? Take a look...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/graphics/activating_activex_fig01.gif

Crazy right? Here's more about ActiveX controls... (hiss!)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/ dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp

...Despite your first thought, Microsoft isn't doing this to be a pain. They got sued. Here's the full scoop...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/15/ microsoft_loses_521m_eolas_patent/
</snip>

Greg




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----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Smoak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Proposed announcement about Shale TLP resources now being available


On 7/8/06, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Any opinions on this logo?

http://people.apache.org/~jmitchell/site/

Neat, but I had to answer a prompt (ActiveX control?) to get it to
display.  Is there an alternate version or text that will show up if
browser settings prevent the animated one from appearing?

Thanks,
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Wendy



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