MS Gives 60-Day Deadline to Web Devs

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."

Comments

Re:Good Riddance

[DeathFromSomewhere]

No, we hate it because it's horribly insecure and it works on one platform only.

For anyone who doesn't feel like visiting apple...

[garyr_h]

Try:

function flash(name, width, height) {

document.write('<embed src="' + name + '.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wpluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflas hplayer" width="' + width + '" height="' + height + '">\n</embed>');
}