ActiveX HAS begun!
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- Mick
Downloaded some updates over the weekend. My IE now asks me to click to activate any flash content.
It's begun!
Runs off to implement FlashObject *sigh*
- thinman0
fucking christ bullshit, because of that patent!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
- djmindbender0
FlashObject wont fix the problem. You're going to have to wait for an update from microsoft in a few months.
- thinman0
there is a grey outline around each Flash object in IE.
IE really isnt that bad, but this is total BS
- rafalski0
Embed your Flash with JS, BUT the JS has to come from an external file. Works for me.
It's not so bad, we had to do dumber workarounds when standard nazis enforced css on us ;)
- unclesize0
the external js works but is very buggy. For instance, since you also need a js to make a alpha transparency .png work correctly in IE, the flash js breaks it so you can no longer use png if you want to use the flash js. Also, when you lay your page out in css with a hybrid of flash and html, you will notice your content goes missing.
bullshit I say.
- poomoo0
i downloaded my updates and it is all working as normal. no click to interact - it just plays straight away.
- rafalski0
Mine didn't download automatically either, had to get it manually.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa…
- unclesize0
I uninstalled it on my machine. I can only imagine what clients are going to start saying. Is this something that as a designer you are obligated to fix for them? Or is it something you can charge for?
- rafalski0
unclesize, I will have to check the png thing. I'm not sure what you mean by "content goes missing" though, when is this happening? I don't see a problem with css+flash sites.
I am not using the adobe JS, just an old JS embed script of my own, one that I used for cheating validator with while inserting illegal [EMBED] tag.
- liquid0
you should be able to charge for it. just like network admins charge for upgrading the network because microsoft went from nt 4 to win2k and then to XP... You are not responsible for maintaining a clients site forever.
- unclesize0
The content goes missing thing is just an anomily I'm sure. But last night I was working on something and got the flash js to display correctly, but then when I had content "float: right;" next to it, all the content except flash was missing. Finally just went back to the standard object tag as almost all the images on the site are png's and I would need to redo all of them.
- rafalski0
Did you try to put your flash into a fixed size div container?
- DeviceUnseen0
flashobject has a good work around along with good detect and handling:
http://blog.deconcept.com/flasho…
(you end up getting cleaner code than Adobe's)
- Pixter0
I don't want to work with internet anymore. I want to be a fisherman.
- kinetic0
this is pretty retarded...i bet half the time people wont even notice it
you try to click a button on a big flash site and it doesn't work ... so you click it again and it does
the first click enables the content, the second click the button will work.
- Mick0
FlashObject wont fix the problem. You're going to have to wait for an update from microsoft in a few months.
djmindbender
(Apr 17 06, 06:40)
------------------Wrong :) I've used it on a few sites (along with a dozen other developers I know) and it works a treat.
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
you know... it's great that deconcept's work-around is there... and the other 'attempts' at it too...
... but seriously - how many sites out there now are going to require extra useabilty? A TON OF THEM... which will PISS OFF a ton of people - and like people tend to REact rather than stop and cope/understand... do you see a possible 'I don't want Flash' trend coming up from clients based on this 'new' issue?... even though you say you have a fix?
I just see a lot of clients already having it in their head that Flash is not to be in the mix -- before you even get a chance to meet with them to discuss it-- all because of this 'new' visual/extra usability issue.
- moook0
nah, no way. There have been security issues like this before and there are always ways around. In fact flashObject is better than a workaround, and all the recent sites should be using it
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
*phew
:)
*promises to use the flashObject from now on