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MS Gives 60-Day Deadline to Web Devs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the annoyances-and-other-wastes-of-time dept.

capt turnpike writes "Since losing the patent case filed by Eolas, Microsoft has to change radically the way IE works with a lot of content, especially video and other ActiveX controls. eWEEK is reporting that Microsoft has gotten a one-time, 60-day extension in which developers and companies can try to re-engineer their Web pages and ads to work with the new regime. If devs don't make that deadline, users could face pages asking them to activate much of the content, plus ads."

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  1. Good Riddance by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean ActiveX websites will break? . . . And that's a *bad* thing?

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    1. Re:Good Riddance by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > You mean ActiveX websites will break? . . . And that's a *bad* thing?

      They're going to fucking bury that technology. They have done it before, and they will do it again. They're going to fucking kill ActiveX.

      Microsoft has gotten a one-time, 60-day extension in which developers and companies can try to re-engineer their Web pages and ads to work with the new regime. If devs don't make that deadline, users could face pages asking them to activate much of the content, plus ads.

      And someone, somewhere, will get an ActiveChair flung at them.

    2. Re:Good Riddance by Syberghost · · Score: 5, Funny

      And someone, somewhere, will get an ActiveChair flung at them.

      Now that I've stopped laughing at this line, I can reply with who that will be:

      Developers, developers, developers, developers.

    3. Re:Good Riddance by manifoldronin · · Score: 4, Funny
      but I have a demo scheduled for April 15th which I can already forsee is going to be a potential disaster.
      so you just gave up trying and came to /.? ;-)
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    4. Re:Good Riddance by Z0mb1eman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Developers, developers, developers, developers.

      Mushroom, mushroom!

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    5. Re:Good Riddance by rxd · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, in this case it should be Lawyers, Lawyers, Lawyers...

  2. Click here to activate Advertising by Alien54 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The sweet irony of it al

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  3. This will be a disaster! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Users will be forced to click once before punching the monkey.

  4. Re:Microsoft Umbrella? by jefu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually I think it is more like : If you use MS technologies you'll be protected against lawsuits by MS.

  5. ActiveX by Chas · · Score: 3, Funny

    *WHAP! WHAP! WHAP!*

      Not so active now. Are ya' sunshine?

    *KABLAM!*

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  6. Re:A good reason to dump ActiveX by Andrzej+Sawicki · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except that by "enhanced" they might mean "nerfed", if is so suits them. It's been done before, no?

  7. Web Devs Give 60-Day Deadline to MS by booch · · Score: 2, Funny

    In related news, web developers worldwide have given notice to Microsoft to fix Internet Explorer to actually conform to the standards it purports to support. Any web browser that is not fixed in 60 days will no longer work with many web sites.

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  8. In that case... by Timbotronic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Enjoy this while you can!

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