Any Web Designers Worried About The New IE Fix?

[CorpRebel]

Since the patent office has upheld Eolas' patent of embedding items such as Flash into websites, how will that affect you?

“If you use embedded technologies for audio or video - including Flash - you are in for some re-engineering work before April 11th.

Microsoft plans to release a patch to IE 6 - and embed new technology in IE 7 - that effectively disables all media activated with applet, object or embed tags (used to insert plugins into webpages).

Once the new patch hits, your users will need to click on each object to “activate” it. Autoplay simply won’t work unless you “fix” your sites.”

http://www.nicktemple.com/2006/72/ie-ch ... avior.html

I'm sure MS is taking this to the U.S. Supreme Court but looks like the "work-arounds" will be in place soon.

So ... WHAT do YOU think?

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel

[Warren Contreras]

You mean we might have to start convincing visitors there is a good reason to follow-through instead of just slapping them in the face with it?

I'm all for this, on both sides.

[CorpRebel]

[Tom Fosson]

[CorpRebel]

[Tom Fosson]