Re: applet on the webpage & "Click to activate and use this control" info pop-up

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

18 Aug 2006 04:34:19 -0700

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<1155900859.505228.235280@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>

Roland de Ruiter wrote:

On 18-8-2006 5:35, Andrew Thompson wrote:

Martin Honnen wrote:

[...]

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."

....

..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?

Microsoft has to change the way in which IE handles ActiveX controls
because it lost the Microsoft/Eolas lawsuite.

Oh, a (*&$#%%&!) lawsuit. I should have guessed something
so illogical, had its origins in a court ruling.

See for example:
<http://www.nabble.com/Microsoft-issues-IE-update-to-get-around-the-Eolas-patent-t1202526.html>

.....

Thanks ...I would read further, but I'm already feeling nauseous.

Andrew T.