- From: Jerry Mead <jerrym@meadroid.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 01:41:28 +0100
- To: <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
If you dynamically write in (via the 'Microsoft-recommended' method) an ActiveX object for a control *that is not already installed on a client machine* and then access that document from a web server, you will see the usual security prompt followed by a dialog entitled "ActiveX installation" : "Press OK to continue installing". This dialog is not documented on the docs for the IE6sp1b test build, and if we follow through the logic that dynamically written-in content does not infringe the Eolas patent then it should not be appearing anyway. I'm assuming that this is a bug in IE6sp1b v.01 that was missed in test. I sincerely hope so, otherwise it rather defeats the object of asking our corporate customers to re-script vast numbers of documents (none of which, Michael Wallent may be surprised to learn, leverage our controls to 'deliver advertising'). Jerry Mead http://www.meadroid.com/
Received on Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:41:44 UTC