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November 01, 2005
Eolas news
Eolas news: Not news, really... came out last week, but you might get questions from clients or colleagues now that the article is in such wide syndication. From what I read, this month's ruling was mostly about an appeal on a prior ruling where Microsoft had to pay Eolas $500 million, rather than about what browsers can legally do in the future and how. (For the latter, the Active Content Developer Center has had its content mothballed to avoid confusing anyone who stumbled upon it, but to my knowledge those technical methods are still available, should they be needed.) Anyway, no news here from us, from what I can read into it....
Posted by John Dowdell at November 1, 2005 04:35 PM
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That solution of using JavaScript to embed Flash does not work in many cases: e.g. think about Flicker.com Zeitgeist (a Flash app to show pictures embeddable into blogs) or Youtube.com (flash videos)- these sites give you the code to embed flash into Myspace, Friendster, Xanga and other blogs, and ALL these community sites like Myspace & Friendster BLOCK javascript.
If I were you, I would monitor this very closely, since Flickr and Youtube are among the most successful non-advertisement applications of Flash, and this "workaround" will really hurt them.
Posted by: alec at November 1, 2005 10:20 PM
You're right, sites which accept content from others need to be careful of accepting instructions from them, whether in SWF, JS or whatever -- cross-site scripting exploits come in many variations now.
If a community site wants to accept richer content from members then they'll need to check things very carefully, as the recent Samy exploit shows.
Posted by: John Dowdell at November 2, 2005 11:06 AM