Active X and Stupid Microsoft

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If I turn on Active X controls, it means I want them ON. Why has Microsoft
decided to protect me from myself? It is stupid to make me click twice on
each time.

I've started using Firefox on everything I can, and recommending Firefox to
my Web visitors, but there are still things I have to do with IE (my bank
site does not work right with Firefox).

Would it be too much to ask for them to give us back control? Or do they
need lawsuits for that?
 
Do they need another one?
-I don't believe "web pages are easily coded to avoid this". I get directed
to pages written for profesional programers, who may or may not understand,
but where is the real world to go?

To the competition.
 
widman said:
Do they need another one?
-I don't believe "web pages are easily coded to avoid this". I get directed
to pages written for profesional programers, who may or may not understand,
but where is the real world to go?
Click to expand...

(Please bottom post)

The "real world" has to complain to the webmasters of the sites
affected, and wait for them to make appropriate changes.

The "real world" could also complain to their elected officials about
the US Patent Office handing out patents for "inventions" that would be
obvious to those with knowledge related to the "inventions".
 
IF IT is not supported in Firefox, what is microsoft blocking that they call
"active-X"? My sites run fine in Firefox, but microsoft IE won't show
javacripts without clicking ok on their two messages.

check www.widman.biz and you will see.
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IF Active x is not supported in Firefox, what is Microsoft really blocking
that they call Active-X? My sites work fine in Firefox, but on IE I now have
to click twice to allow "active-x" so that javascripts can run.

Check www.widman.biz to see for yourself.

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widman said:
IF Active x is not supported in Firefox, what is Microsoft really blocking
that they call Active-X? My sites work fine in Firefox, but on IE I now have
to click twice to allow "active-x" so that javascripts can run.

Check www.widman.biz to see for yourself.
Click to expand...


FYI that site is totally unusable in IE7.

Anyway, there appears to be a coding error there.
According to the

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html#h-16.2

<quote>
A frameset document has a HEAD, and a FRAMESET in place of the BODY.
</quote>

View source of the site you are giving as an example
shows that it has the <frameset> contained in the <head>.

Even when I try to bypass that and open just the "body" frame
it won't render for some reason. Perhaps IE7 doesn't like this then

<BASE TARGET="_parent">

Yup. With the original frameset I did a View Source, fixed the error
I mentioned, saved that, set Work Offline, loaded About:Blank over top
of that page and then did a Back to re-render the page using my change.
That got the two frames loaded but because of the Work Offline state
nothing else would load. I tried refreshing each frame separately but
that requires Work Online which then lost my change--even when I set
cache-checking to Never... which seems unhelpful.

If you fix that error I will retry for you to see if I can reproduce
your original symptom.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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