Say goodbye to ActiveX in Internet Explorer

while browsing one of the othe forums i came across this :

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Yep, looks like another patent lawsuit for MS. This came across bugtraq but I think the important thing to note is that existing installs will continue to use ActiveX. BUGTRAQ BEGIN HERE ======================================== Hi, As everyone knows, ActiveX controls and the <OBJECT> tag has been a big source of security holes in Internet Explorer. However, it looks like support for ActiveX controls is going to be removed from Internet Explorer. A small company called Eolas recently won a $521 million judgment against Microsoft for patent infringement. The Eolas patent covers plugins in Web pages to show multimedia content. The $521 million payment covers past infringement. Because Bill Gates loathes to pay per-copy royalties, it looks like Microsoft is going to either partially or completely remove support for ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer rather than pay Eolas any more money. This Internetnews.com article talks about the fallout from the Eolas victory: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-new...cle.php/3070591 Here's the Eolas patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...2=HITOFF&d=PALL &p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,838,906.WKU.&OS=PN/5,838, 906&RS=PN/5,838,906 (This URL will probably requiring copying and pasting into your browser since it wraps to 2 or 3 lines.) The W3C has set up a discussion list to talk about replacements for ActiveX in Internet Explorer: http://www.w3.org/2003/08/patent BUGTRAQ SNIP HERE ========================================

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nice to see bill getting sued for a change

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by onzeponze on 09-02-2003 at 18:01.

Say goodbye to flash movies. The <object> tag is used to insert flash movies for a website.

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant

welll recenty object tag have been used to do something more undecent than just playing flash movies

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