Yes, Opera was the only other major browser vendor to implement the click-to-activate mechanism besides Microsoft.
EOLAS has publicly stated they will only force commercial projects to pay a royalty on their 906 patent. Safari and Mozilla were not being pursued by EOLAS because their browsers are free, based on open-source projects. IE and Opera are commercial ventures, and therefore subject to EOLAS' patent and must pay royalties. Microsoft signed an agreement with EOLAS a while back, allowing them to remove the click-to-activate mechanism from all versions of IE. Opera, on the other hand, has not given in to EOLAS' strong-arm tactics and would rather maintain the click-to-activate annoyance than give in to EOLAS and pay royalties. RE: how this ties into SWFObject, static publishing in Opera continues to have the click-to-activate mechanism. I personally don't think SWFObject needs to be modified to deal with this particular issue, as Opera has such a small market share, and anyone wishing to avoid the click-to-activate mechanism can simply use SWFObject's dynamic publishing approach to get around it. - philip On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Getify Solutions, Inc. <[email protected]>wrote: > Is anyone else aware of the behavior of having the "click to activate" > when embedding with SWFObject (specifically, static embed) in Opera 9 and > 10? Maybe that's known and I was just out of the loop, but I didn't think > that was true. Anyone else? > > --Kyle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SWFObject" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en.
