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Originally Posted by ncross  in Windows '98... Flash movies don't require to be clicked to become active... you would have thought that Microsoft would have moved forwards and not backwards. |
While I would not necessarily have thought that, the "click to activate" problem only affects Internet Explorer 6 and above, which I believe Windows 98 and Windows Me cannot run.
The problem is that Microsoft lost a controversial court case regarding a patent infringement, and rather than pay out the $521,000,000 awarded by the jury decided to change the way the browser worked, affecting all multimedia content - Flash, ShockWave, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java, Acrobat and even Windows Media Player. No other browsers were hit, but they could be in theory.
Consequently, the HTML that Flash, Dreamweaver
etc spew out in their older versions is now useless. As I specialise in multimedia delivery this was a nightmare for me, with about 1,000 pages having to be rewritten last year. The usual workaround is a JavaScript technique, which in the case of Flash is freely available as swfObject.
Happy Googling!
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