Alexei@Nitobi

I read an interesting tidbit today about the whole “click to activate” issue that has plagued the Adobe Flash community for the last year or so.

First some background.. a while back, a very litigious and selfish patent holder EOLAS sued Microsoft because embedding a flash movie or other component in a webpage appeared to be a violation of their undeveloped patent. The result was the Microsoft had to add a mouse-click requirement in order to activate Flash movies (and other media objects) on a page.. at least ones that weren’t generated by script.
Now that we’re up to speed, the news is that Microsoft has licensed said technique from the patent holder, EOLAS and will soon be releasing a patch to fix IE. Yay! This greatly simplifies the use of Flash in webpages again.

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