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April 06, 2006

CNET on IE changes

CNET on IE changes: They do have a point: "On Tuesday, Microsoft will push out an update for Internet Explorer that will change the way the Web browser displays certain pages. Web developers who have not tested their Web sites with the update may be in for a surprise." But they also muddy the water a bit: "This means that certain parts of a Web page, such as a Macromedia Flash animation or QuickTime movie, might need an extra click of the mouse to start." It'll start fine... it's the interactivity which needs an extra click first. Anyone rolling over that part of the screen will see some text pop up first... hassle, but not breakage. Still, it's a good reminder that all those PCs which now use Windows Update and don't use Opera or Firefox will have a bit of a different experience next week. Source info at Active Content Center... lots of people are modifying these ideas, one search term is here.
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Posted by John Dowdell at April 6, 2006 09:40 PM

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this will result in suboptimal experiences for myspace users with flash on their pages, unless myspace does something clever and rewrites all the embeds to use one of the scripting techniques to fix it. i'm guessing myspace won't bother... except maybe for their own flash widgets.

i know things won't be *broken*, but my animated pets won't follow the mouse cursor until clicked on, which is too bad.

i suspect i may get a bunch of tech support questions about this.

Posted by: bunnyhero at April 7, 2006 12:30 AM

Is there anyone who doesn't see this as an anticompetitive move by Microsoft? With their recent conference devoted to promulgating their very own multimedia browser plugin, followed quickly by the incorporation of this 'improvement' into IE7 (are there other significant improvements that have gotten any press ink -- can we still say ink? --) the question has to come up. It's a disinducement, albeit a minor one, to put flash (excuse me, John, Adobe Flash) into a page.

Posted by: George Girton at April 7, 2006 08:43 AM