I've run into issues in Yahoo's Music site, where that site embeds
Microsoft's own Media Player, so it definitely doesn't just affect
Flash. Besides it's so easy to get around the problem with Javascript
(in most cases) - just make sure that the code that most directly
inserts the html into the page is located in an external file - even if
it's just a simple wrapper function like:
// bypass_patent_problem.js
function writeToDocument(html) {
document.write(html);
}
If that function is in a linked file, and not in the current html file,
it will bypass the patent thing, even if the html generator and all the
rest of the scripts are within the page.
Kevin N.
Dave Watts wrote:
Is it me, or does anyone else think MS added this security
feature to put spanners in works for Adobe?
It's not a security feature, it's a condition of Microsoft's settlement with
Eolas over a patent violation, and it negatively affects any interactive use
of ActiveX controls, not just Flash. We've run into a similar problem with
an ActiveX rich text editor that now sometimes works, but doesn't always
work any more.
That said, I suspect they're not too upset about Flash problems.
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