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Oct 17

IE Plugin Handling Silliness

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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.

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