Oct 17
I had almost forgotten the Eolas ruling that mean IE does silly things with plugins.
It reared its head when I had to install a flash component in an application. All worked fine until we started to test in IE/Win. There we saw the lovely usability feature:
- When you mouseover the component a box surrounds the widget
- A message comes up: “Click here to activate the component”
- Now, the component becomes live
Pretty much unusable.
Of course, there is the simple fix of using SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script.
Do you think it is bizarre that you can bypass all of this through a script? Ah fun with law suits.