Microsoft will remove a feature fromInternet Explorer 7that requires
users to authorise the running of multimedia software components
when visiting web pages. The first "preview" patch will be
available in early December it will then be included in the April
2008 Cumulitive Update for Internet Explorer.
"For web developers and designers, this does not change
anything. Your pages will still work in the same way that they did
before. If you have been using the JS insertion method, great. If
not, no worries there either," said Pete LePage, a senior product
manager at Microsoft.
"Back in April 2006, Microsoft made a change to how Internet
Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some
sites required users to 'click to activate' before they could
interact with the control. Microsoft has now licensed the
technologies from Eolas, removing the
'click to activate' requirement in Internet Explorer. Because
of this, the company is removing the "click to activate" behavior
from Internet Explorer."
