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Oh man, bad memories. I used to get so frustrated with Internet Explorer* for doing this about 7 years ago. I was young then, 12 or 13, and had just gotten Flas

Oh man, bad memories. I used to get so frustrated with Internet Explorer* for doing this about 7 years ago. I was young then, 12 or 13, and had just gotten Flash for my birthday. I know it had to be 2004 or 2005 because the version was Flash MX 2004. I was young enough and it was long enough ago that I think I was using Internet Explorer primarily, and got terrible frustrated when they started using this default click-to-play behavior on my Flash creations. How dare they! It took me long enough to figure out how to embed them (I remember I tried using the <img src="" /> tag with a .swf file. HAHA!) It was something to do with an "ActiveX control," I don't remember anymore. But you should have seen how angry it made 13-year-old-me, because my loud, annoying Flash creations had to be allowed their obnoxiousness by every user. Anyway, the point is I approve. :) * I'm pretty sure it was IE, could be remembering wrong.

Monotoko 15y ago
I also remember this! I was designing flash programs on the rubbish school computers that still had IE6. I think I ended up using something like this to bypass it: http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/Flash-ActiveX-Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Fix-73163.html http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/Flash-ActiveX-Micro...
adamman 15y ago
That was annoying. That IE feature still allowed the flash plugin to play though. You had to click on it first before you could interact with it.
talmand 15y ago
I remember that, I believe it was the result of a patent lawsuit. Something about a company had the patent on the concept of embedding assets into the page and automatically starting on page load, or something like that. Microsoft's response was to force the click-to-play mechanic to get around it and then people figured out how to get around that. I don't recall any other browser having to deal with that particular patent.
- artursapek 15y ago
  What a stupid fucking patent.
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Monotoko 15y ago

I also remember this! I was designing flash programs on the rubbish school computers that still had IE6. I think I ended up using something like this to bypass it: http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/Flash-ActiveX-Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-Fix-73163.html http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/Flash-ActiveX-Micro...

adamman 15y ago

That was annoying. That IE feature still allowed the flash plugin to play though. You had to click on it first before you could interact with it.

talmand 15y ago

I remember that, I believe it was the result of a patent lawsuit. Something about a company had the patent on the concept of embedding assets into the page and automatically starting on page load, or something like that. Microsoft's response was to force the click-to-play mechanic to get around it and then people figured out how to get around that. I don't recall any other browser having to deal with that particular patent.

artursapek 15y ago
What a stupid fucking patent.
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