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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.

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

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