IE6+ Workaround for Flash
Friday June 19, 2009
Does anyone still use Internet Explorer 6? I didn't think so, until a visitor to my personal blog wrote me complaining about the size of the enormous text there - which baffled me until I realized they were using IE6, which breaks the CSS on my blog. Well, IE6 and later versions also break something else: Flash embedding. Due to a security issue, ActiveX and Flash objects have to be clicked on to make them active by the user before any of the interactive content will work. This can confuse users, because on their first click it seems as if nothing has happened. It takes a second click to make a button or other interactive object to work. Luckily there's a workaround for this that removes the click-to-activate necessity, and gets rid of an annoying bounding box, too.


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