I work for a new media company that does web content. I’m the budding Flash guru, but we also do advertising for some of our websites, and they learned about this before I did. Please forgive me if this has already been discussed.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/
Because Microsoft lost a patent dispute, they will require a user (after pushing this patch – maybe not a mandatory patch) to “click” on an ActiveX control before being able to interact with it. Basically, you’ll have to click one extra time to push buttons in a Flash interactive. Otherwise, it’s just a visual presentation.
Microsoft has methods for avoiding this “extra click” by using a Javascript include for the OBJECT and EMBED tags. I know that our advertising guys are working with DoubleClick to implement the changes, but most of what they did anyway was Javascript-rendered Flash ads, so the “extra click” wasn’t there to begin with.
Is anyone implementing their Flash work this way just yet? If so, can you post a code sample? Microsoft only covers the code for the OBJECT tag in their documentation, and I was curious if there was any tricks required for the EMBED tag as well for compatibility.
Thanks,
IronChefMorimoto
