Re: [videoblogging] why you now have an error on all your pages
Use this brand new page at Freevlog to avoid the problem: http://freevlog.org/popup/ It uses Javascript, not ActiveX. This fix is only needed for videoblogs that have been using technology to embed the movie into the page. Anyone who's just linking to the movie file isn't affected at all. Most blogs follow the simple freevlog techniques and therefore don't need to worry about this. I'd expect the IE for Mac won't have this problem -- in part because Microsoft isn't developing IE for the Mac anymore. IE 5.5 is the last version, and it's several years old. There won't be any new versions or updates coming out. jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 15, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Ryan Ozawa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/15/06, andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a terribly unfortunate e-mail about a new patch that IE is > using to avoid paying royalties to Active-X. This probably effects almost > all videobloggers and may require an update to all of our websites to > keep people from being stopped by a warning sign. Yipe. What code is it that this applies to? The object embed stuff? Is it only IE for Windows, or IE for Mac as well that's affected? I mean, will all browsers eventually have to pay up or turn it off? - -- Ryan HawaiiVog.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.5 (Build 5050) Comment: http://www.lightfantastic.org/pgp.txt iQA/AwUBREFbHs/o8udD/KcXEQJp3ACff/WQMWFDS3Coq0WK1DCyB694MSAAoOXB wSPa0EnKZm9kxUAQWUsMbA2D =ulZ6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] why you now have an error on all your pages
I though this was a security issue? It's a royalty thing!? I didnt think the quicktime plugin was an active-x control ... does this impact quicktime embeds? ... uhg Im so confused.I've not noticed any pop-ups on my site yet. On 4/15/06, Ryan Ozawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On 4/15/06, andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I just got a terribly unfortunate e-mail about a new patch that IE is > using to avoid paying royalties to Active-X. This probably effects almost> all videobloggers and may require an update to all of our websites to> keep people from being stopped by a warning sign. Yipe. What code is it that this applies to? The object embed stuff? Is itonly IE for Windows, or IE for Mac as well that's affected? I mean, willall browsers eventually have to pay up or turn it off? - --RyanHawaiiVog.com-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.5 (Build 5050)Comment: http://www.lightfantastic.org/pgp.txtiQA/AwUBREFbHs/o8udD/KcXEQJp3ACff/WQMWFDS3Coq0WK1DCyB694MSAAoOXB wSPa0EnKZm9kxUAQWUsMbA2D=ulZ6-END PGP SIGNATURE-Yahoo! Groups Links<*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/-- http://www.DavidMeade.comfeed: http://www.DavidMeade.com/feed SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] why you now have an error on all your pages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/15/06, andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a terribly unfortunate e-mail about a new patch that IE is > using to avoid paying royalties to Active-X. This probably effects almost > all videobloggers and may require an update to all of our websites to > keep people from being stopped by a warning sign. Yipe. What code is it that this applies to? The object embed stuff? Is it only IE for Windows, or IE for Mac as well that's affected? I mean, will all browsers eventually have to pay up or turn it off? - -- Ryan HawaiiVog.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.5 (Build 5050) Comment: http://www.lightfantastic.org/pgp.txt iQA/AwUBREFbHs/o8udD/KcXEQJp3ACff/WQMWFDS3Coq0WK1DCyB694MSAAoOXB wSPa0EnKZm9kxUAQWUsMbA2D =ulZ6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] why you now have an error on all your pages
Basically, if you used an object, you will need to convert to _javascript_. :(On Apr 15, 2006, at 4:34 PM, andrew michael baron wrote:I just got a terribly unfortunate e-mail about a new patch that IE is using to avoid paying royalties to Active-X.This probably effects almost all videobloggers and may require an update to all of our websites to keep people from being stopped by a warning sign.I put up the screenshot I was sent right here:http://www.rocketboom.com/images/rocketboom_ie.jpg .::. Begin forwarded message:Date: April 15, 2006 4:17:38 PM EDTTo: hello at rocketboom.comSubject: why you now have an error on all your pages .::. ActiveX loophole information from a web developer RocketBoom,Well, it finally hapenned over the weekend, and the long awaited Eolastechnology patent caught up to Microsoft. Instead of paying Eolas forusing their multimedia patent, Microsoft decided to put up a warningeverytime ActiveX is used. Microsoft put out a lot of patches overthe weekend, and one of them blocks activeX content as a default.The reason this becomes important is that your homepage now has a bigwarning dialog box everytime my Internet Explorer for Windows browsercomes on. I sent you a screen capture from my browser the last time Itried to get on. It says "Click to run activeX" control on thiswebpage. Every time. Like even if I click onto another page and thenclick back. I don't know about you, but my logs show roughly 90 % ofmy users on Windows using Internet Explorer. You might get a fewe-mails about this.Microsoft, being the richest and most powerful company on earth, optedto not pay patent royalty rights for a company which legitimatelyfilled out the paperwork to get patents. Their resulting errormessage pushes this responsibility onto the content creators. So nowdevelopers have to find creative ways to get around this. Luckily foryour web developer, he or she has to deal.The currently loopholed accepted way of doing this is writing_javascript_ code to bypass the patent. It does not actually doanything differently. You simply use a dynamic write statementinstead of writing the code directly. Apple wrote up a page for thesetypes of scripts. Please note, the last paragraph on the link belowis their caveat; if someone has _javascript_ turned off on theirbrowsers, they will bypass your content entirely. So you probablyhave to list a warning somewhere. Default behavior if you don't doanything to all your documents is an extra click to get aroundwarnings everytime someone visits your page.http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.htmlThis is something which must be fixed in all your documents. For yourfew hundred html documtents, I would suggest Macromedia's dreamWeaverproduct. There is a very good Multiple Find and Replace Feature", andyou need to apply it to All Documents within this directory, not thedefault 'just this document'. I like their product because it handlesmultiple searches fairly quickly. I have had a few hundred thousanddocuments to convert, and it was fairly snappy. I'm not related toany Adobe or Macromedia product, I just use them a lot because theywork.Keep up the rocketBooming.Milan Web Master YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
