Re: applet on the webpage & "Click to activate and use this control" info pop-up
Martin Honnen wrote:
apa-sf wrote:
I have a webpage with java applet. When I point cursor on the applet's
window a "click to activate and use this control" pop-up apperas near
the cursor.
Is there anyway to get rid of that system popup with "click to
activate" message?
See
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp>
you would need to write out your HTML applet element using JavaScript in
an external script file.
Quoting from that page..
"Note While inactive controls do not respond to direct user
interaction;
they do respond to script commands.
To activate an interactive control, either click it or use the TAB key
to
set focus on it and then press the SPACEBAR or the ENTER key.
Interactive controls loaded from external script files immediately
respond to user interaction and do not need to be activated."
Huh?!
...if this 'click to activate' the control is for some security reason
(I must admit that I still neither run IE with the security update,
nor entirely understand its purpose), why does it make any sense
to allow scripted* elements to be immediately active?
* I have gone to considerable lengths to ensure that my
applet/object elements are *not* dependent on JavaScript!
(I have no figures to support that anyone runs Java but
not JS, but I still do not want to make one technology
dependent on a second, or third..)
Andrew T.