Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage

[bkoopers]

Since installing a recent Windows update, I now get this pop-up window in Internet Explorer v6 on a number of webpages:

Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage

In addition, if there is a flash object link on a webpage, I have to click it twice to open it.

A few weeks ago, I read a tech note somewhere that the fix was to uninstall a specific Windows update. I did that and both problems were gone. After another recent Windows update, both problems came back. I cannot locate that tech note that specified what to uninstall to fix this. I searched the Microsft Knowledge Base and still could not find it.

What do I need to do to eliminate those two problems?

Thanks to anyone who can help me out.

 

[bkoopers]

To linney:
When you click on the "Play" button on my sample webpage, does it play the video?

To everyone:
If "They are relying on the Web Sites to change the behavior and it is out of the hands of the normal user/surfer", can anyone tell me exactly what I need to change to prevent that pop-up box from appearing on my small webpage at the URL I listed previously? As I said, I cannot figure out what to do even after reading all the relevant info I could find at the Microsoft website.

 

[Diancecht]

Maybe this helps:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp

Cheers,
Dian

 

[bkoopers]

To Diancecht:
That is one of the webpages I read and although it gives examples, I still cannot figure out what I need to do to fix my webpage.

Can anyone interpret that webpage and tell me what change or addition I need to make on my previously referenced sample webpage? It appears to have something to do with this line of code on the page that displays the Apple QuickTime video player:

<embed allowScriptAccess="never" src="

http://thefireandreason.irbl.net/video/TFaR_060625_ItStartsWith1.mov"

loop="false" autostart="false" width=480 height=370></embed>

 

[smah]

Correct, if you directly embed content as mentioned in

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/

that is what happens. To get around it, you'll probably need to use JScript method linked several times above. Telling you how to revise your web pages are beyond the scope of the XP forum and also beyond the scope of the browser forum. To get a good response, you'll really need to ask this in one of the web site designer forums - possibly forum253 or forum215.

 

[smah]

Perhaps this document will be a little more clear

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/noclicktoactivate.html

You can find several others by googling for something like this

 

[linney]

bkoopers,

I am yet to see the play button or any clickable links on your web page, it's probably just my security settings and not any fault with your page.

 

[bkoopers]

To Smah:
Thanks for the link but I still two problems:

1) I am not familiar with the JavaScript language so I still can't determine the exact code I need in the js file or the calling code in my main document. Can anyone please give me the code to fix just for my sample page above so I can see the technique?

2) My intent is to put it on several MySpace pages like this one but MySpace does not allow JavaScript code (they only allow html code)

http://myspace.com/bkoopers

 

[smah]

Like I said, there are other forums that would be better equiped to answer those questions. I don't know the answer, but those who create web sites on a daily basis probably would. The gist of what I get from the some of the vaious documents is that the workaround is to call the video file from an external script in a particular way - not using the html embed tag. I suspect something like this Flash Fix would probably work for your movie as well. Here's what apple has to say

http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html

 

[smah]

I just realized the Apple developer link that I just posted, was linked from the mozilla link earlier. MySpace works the way you'd expect - their system takes care of this automatically.