Introduction | Examples | Solutions | Tools | Q&A Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 1 The Changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 2 What’s Happening? An overview of the change to Internet Explorer How it impacts experience A brief demo of the new browser What resources are available A review of the technical solutions offered and other resources available Questions and Answers Agenda

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 3 Microsoft announced changes to Internet Explorer. IE 5.5 on Win 2k IE 6 on XP IE 6 in Win 2003 Server All future versions of Win IE 6 PocketPC and Windows CE updated later Mac browser will not be updated The and tags in Internet Explorer will be handled differently depending on how they are used. The change impacts display of “Active Content” What’s happening?

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 4 Introduction: Active Content ActiveX controls intended for use in the browser Flash, Shockwave, Authorware Players Windows Media Player Apple QuickTime RealAudio, RealVideo Java applets Custom ActiveX controls More… What is Active Content?

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 5 How it impacts experience Today there is a seamless experience The future IE prompt users to accept the invocation of each active content instance on a web page Updated sites will have a seamless experience Experience with other browsers unaffected How will the user experience change?

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 6 How it impacts experience: Example A screenshot of the new experience taken with a version of the new Internet Explorer for developers to test code.

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 7 How it impacts experience: Timing “Test code for developers” is available on MSDN General distribution and adoption early 2004 (OEM, WindowsUpdate.com) When will the new IE be available?

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 8 Technical Overview: The Object/Embed Tag <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b " codebase=" flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="happy" align="middle"> <embed src="happy.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="happy" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage=" />

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 9 Won’t Work: HTML embedding

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 10 Won’t Work: Inline script-generated var doc = document; doc.write(“<OBJECT...”); doc.write(“...”); doc.write(“ ”);

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 11 Won’t Work: Externalized with IFRAME <IFRAME src=“Ex1or2.html”...> var doc = document; doc.write(“<OBJECT...”); doc.write(“...”); doc.write(“ ”); + or

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 12 Solutions Manual JavaScript solution Less than 1% of browsers have JavaScript disabled Macromedia is working on solutions that don’t require JavaScript Active Content Update Utilities (Solution Summary on Dev Center) Command Line Utility (Macintosh, Windows, and Unix platforms) Visual Update Utility (Macintosh, Windows) Web Server Module (IIS 5 and 6 and Apache 2.0, Windows and Unix platforms) Distributed for free under an open-source license and supported Resources: Solutions

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 13 Solutions: Availability JavaScript updates available today Other utilities in a private beta, available early November We encourage visitors to apply to participate in beta Are all the solutions available now?

Visit the Active Content Developer Center: 14 Resources: Macromedia.com The Active Content Developer Center Today: JavaScript fix and documentation Solution Summary of upcoming Active Content Update Utilities Resources for hosting providers Find a developer Notification opt-in Forum Support Center Soon to be released Macromedia.com articles Active Content Update Utilities and documentation Localization: localized websites and proactive communication

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