# IE patch and new ActiveX method for Flash?

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**Created:** [March 14, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ie-patch-and-new-activex-method-for-flash/181889 "2006-03-14T01:14:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ironchefmoto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/91b2a8/32.png) [@ironchefmoto](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ironchefmoto)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ie-patch-and-new-activex-method-for-flash/181889/1 "2006-03-14T01:14:04Z")

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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/](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