Hi,
Don't know if you've seen it, but I just discovered, that Microsoft lost
a patent dispute to Eolas yesterday[1] and Microsoft has since created a
voluntary update for IE6 and also embedded the new behaviour in IE7.[2]
This among other things affect Flash very much, as Microsoft writes:
Some windowed controls use Windows API functions, such as GetKeyState
and GetCursorPos, to determine the state of the keyboard and mouse and
then respond to the function results. For these controls only, a prompt
appears before the control is run in Internet Explorer. To run the
control, the user needs to click the button in the message window
before the page loads. After loading, the control will not require
activation. At present, the following controls have this behavior, but
the vendors are working on new controls that would not have this
behavior.
* Virtools™ Web Player from Virtools SA
* Macromedia Shockwave Player™ from Adobe Systems Inc.
* QuickTime™ from Apple Computer, Inc.
When loaded from external script files, these controls do not display a
prompt.
This page[2] also addresses, how you should properly embed ActiveX in
the future to circumvent this warning.
I do not see anything on the Adobe/Macromedia sites addressing this
issue - but an update to the latest player will probably come soon.
Just a heads-up for you all - this will be an issue soon, as people
start updating :)
And then again, Microsoft might win an appeal, so this won't be an issue
after all.
[1]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1895907,00.asp
[2]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp
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