Heads Up For Java, Activex And Flash Users Big changes required

[Tyssen 0]

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[Albus Dumbledore 0]

tyssen...lmao strange i just met a kid named tyssen in Los Angeles, anyways... interesting i must say, pretty strange..it is not april 11th and nothings happening >_< although i dont have a CSS, Javascript, and XHTML, or flash site....its PHP...and i do use css...but i dont see anything wrong with it but an interesting peice of news

[Tyssen 0]

it is not april 11th and nothings happening

A link from the one above seems to sugges that MS have given developers an additional 60 days to prepare before unleashing the update.

[Inspiron 0]

The Internet Will End on April 11

What does this mean? It's April 12 today..

I can see from that site that there is only a minor change.

	 <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5..." ...>		  <param name="src" value="sample.mov">	 </object>

changing to

	 <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5..." ...>		  <param name="src" value="sample.mov" [b]/[/b]>	 </object>

The change is by adding the "/" at the end of the param name?
What I don't understand is why it must be done with Javascript?

[WindAndWater 0]

The only change is that it has to be encapsulated in javascript. Eolas has a patent out on embeded media content that loads directly with the page. Creating the content with javascript keeps it from being embedded, and therefore sidesteps the patent. Eolas has been nice enough to say that they won't target Firefox or any other opensource and freeware program. Using javascript for flash/quicktime/etc seems like a pretty terrible idea because of all the people who have it disabled or limited. It also means that writing embedded content into webpages is going to be more of a pain in the future -- it makes me thankful for conditional comments.