Way back when Microsoft lost the battle with Eolas (2006) about active content we’ve had to endure the annoying ‘Click To Activate’ prompt around our flash apps/movies - fortunately tools like SWFobject have provided us better ways to load Flash and degrade gracefully but as Microsoft have now settled with Eolas then it looks like the ‘click to activate’ prompt will be a thing of the past with an upcoming refresh of Internet Explorer.
Read more here.
EDIT: From the IEBlog - Additionally this change will be made part of the next pre-release versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. After giving people enough time to prepare for this change, we’ll roll this behavior into the IE Cumulative Update in April 2008, and all customers who install the update will get the change.
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