The end of Flash?

at 15:52 on 06 March 2006, Chris Hoeppner wrote:

This might push everyone to use xhtml... or not.

at 17:19 on 06 March 2006, Chris Gwynne wrote:

The end of Flash, highly doubtful.

at 18:49 on 06 March 2006, evan wrote:

microsoft is chalk-full of bad ideas in regards to IE

at 19:09 on 06 March 2006, trovster wrote:

Hopefully the end of IE!

at 19:21 on 06 March 2006, Valerio wrote:

This is the way microsoft secures their products: by not allowing people to do stuff. "hey downloads are dangerous! lets disable them!"

at 19:49 on 06 March 2006, forbes wrote:

well said trovster. lets see the end of IE!!!

at 20:18 on 06 March 2006, Yura wrote:

@ trovster

Will never happen. Simple reason being because there are a lot more people who will do what they are told is best for them (just like religon) vs people like you and I who know what's the deal (kind of like atheists).

at 20:43 on 06 March 2006, evan wrote:

i just read an email from atlas, microsoft's banner serving software for msn; and it appears they have a fix in place for their customers to where the "click to activate" BS won't happen on their flash banners.

i don't know what else to think of this other than it's very hypocritical.

@yura might want to tread a bit lightly on the religion comments... that can come off a bit negatively with some audience. just FYI.

at 21:06 on 06 March 2006, Paul wrote:

Hmm... It doesn't look like they're tossing out Flash, just modifying how it interacts with the page. Honestly, I'd love to see it go, as too many clients come to us asking for Flash intros (in this day and age, even!), but I can't imagine that they'd throw the baby out with the bathwater.

..Despite the baby in question possibly being the anti-christ. (Yes, another religious reference already ;)

at 22:29 on 06 March 2006, Christian Montoya wrote:

@ Yura: You suck at analogies. Stick to web design.

at 22:54 on 06 March 2006, Tom wrote:

@ Christian: it's actually not too bad. (what Yura said)

at 23:00 on 06 March 2006, dblake_md wrote:

Have any of you IE haters even read what this is about? This is not a "lets screw our users" decision. This came about because they are being sued by Eolas Technologies, Inc. Also the problem is not Flash specific "this behavioral change in IE is not specific to Flash, but any embedded ‘active content’, for the record (applets, Quicktime movies, etc.)."

This quote is taken from the article located at this url

http://www.adotas.com/2006/03/flash-ads-disabled-with-new-ie-update/

Know what you are talking about before you talk about it.

at 23:47 on 06 March 2006, evan wrote:

@ dblake_md

but wasn't that already taken care of with that active X disabling prompt (or whatever it is)?

or is this a further adjustment from that?

i really wish IE would be built to look at what it's actually blocking before it does so. if it looks malacious, then block it, if not, let it go. right now it just seems to block everything.

at 23:57 on 06 March 2006, evan wrote:

okay, so i just gave this a read, and it sounds like eolas was the cause for both updates (as far as i can tell). So it's this eolas company throwing a wrench into everything.

this is way more messed up than originally thought - basically, eolas' patents have been infringed upon in someway (i don't know how this only effects IE and not all other browsers) but the ceo of eolas is saying to keep this from happening, developers like ourselves should pressure microsoft into paying eolas for being able to use the OBJECT, EMBED and other tags.

What a mess. Because of 2 companies bickering, all of us flash developers are gonna have to take the brunt.

this is heavily going to impact the online advertising industry.

at 23:58 on 06 March 2006, evan wrote:

sorry, the above references these articles:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1490621,00.asp

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1490612,00.asp

the first one having quotes from eolas' ceo

at 04:26 on 07 March 2006, Christian Montoya wrote:

@ Tom: Oh yes it is. It's probably the worst analogy ever made.

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