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December 02, 2005
Eolas re-re-re-re-redux
Eolas re-re-re-re-redux: In response to recent court rulings, Microsoft announced this afternoon that they'll go back to avoiding possible infringement of the Eolas plugin-invocation patent. This Microsoft page on "Changes to Internet Explorer" is back in effect, and I suspect Macromedia/Adobe will be reviving their plugin patent page pretty soon as well. No rush on this... from what I currently understand Microsoft doesn't plan to ship its first altered browsers until mid-spring next year. Sorry to spring this on you on a Friday afternoon, but.... :(
Update: [Additional blogsearch terms: eolas, patent, activex, Active Content]
Posted by John Dowdell at December 2, 2005 04:23 PM
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Blast from the past... I couldn't find the Microsoft technote on the Microsoft site, but found it by searching an old post on this weblog here... I was surprised to see later that this information originally appeared in October 2003, we've been dealing with this issue for a few years now.
Posted by: John Dowdell at December 2, 2005 04:35 PM
Michael Wallent of Microsoft discusses how this implementation is expected to be less invasive than the implementation of 2003:
This time around, Wallent described the change as "minor" and explained that the extra mouse click would only be necessary if the user wanted to interact with the ActiveX control. "The vast majority of sites and users won't be affected," he insisted. "It's significantly less intrusive than what we originally planned to do. Instead of non-stop dialog boxes, the page will load normally now and won't be as disruptive. It will only require a click to activate [the control] if the user wants to interact with it," Wallent added.
Posted by: John Dowdell at December 3, 2005 02:47 PM
Not as bad as their original implementation, but still messy.
I dislike this a lot considering I build interactive training that's deployed at companies standardized on IE.
What does this mean for Mozilla, Apple, and NS?
Posted by: PaulC at December 4, 2005 12:26 PM