Hi, JD- I just want to thank you for your informative recent posts. Since you are someone with an ear to the door, your insights and tips are very appreciated.
Regards- Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. John Dowdell wrote: | | Francis Hemsher wrote: | > IE7 Beta 2 Preview(3/20/2006) does not initially focus on | the events | > contained within an SVG document included in an embed. | > It provides its own statement, via an onMouseOver popup | display: "click | > to activate and use this control". | | That is true. It is not just SVG, but any browser extension which has | its OBJECT, EMBED, or APPLET tags contained within the hosting HTML | page. Much more info on user experience and development | strategies here: | http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent | | | > I've made MS aware of the above. If anyone else is looking at | > IE7, the EMBED and SVG, you should run it and let them know | > of your needs. | | They already know, believe me, they already know.... ;-) | | The new behavior also occurs in users of the regular IE6 who | have found | the list of download options in Windows Update and chosen to | install the | similar change for IE6. I expect that, in absence of further | legal news, | that this browser change will be mainlined into a future IE6 update. | Other browsers are also vulnerable to the same legal | concerns, although | I have not heard of any patent news against other browsermakers... | Microsoft has the biggest pockets, and was first to be approached. | | What to do? The easiest seems to be to use an external .JS file to | dynamically write your OBJECT, EMBED or APPLET tags into the page. | Examples are at the above Macromedia Active Content Center. | | jd ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> 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/
