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Does "Click to Activate" for Internet Explorer bug you?

styol's picture
It pisses me off
75% (3 votes)
Meh, its kinda annoying but i can deal with it
25% (1 vote)
No! i love it, it rocks my world
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 4
styol's picture
styol
webradio.vishun.com

Verizon Wireless
V3m
old school

IE "Click to activate" -- does it bug you?

Posted:

if you have internet explorer you most likely have experienced "click to activate" for active content such as flash (like the video guides we have in the guides)

active content? flash? awuhzuh?! so you know how sometimes you goto a web site and theres stuff that moves, fades, plays music, video, etc.... and sometimes when you put the mouse over it, a grayish border appears around the flash content... then you click it... and then you can click on something within the flash movie

thats "click to activate" -- for instance on a music player that does not have click to activate fixed, if you goto press pause, you click the pause button... it doesnt pause... why? because that first click was to actually activate the flash content

does this bug you? or would it just be a lil nicer if you didnt have to double click flash content the first time? especially considering that flash content so so common now a days.

NOTE: if you post back rants about how the pc, internet explorer, or microsoft sucks -- they will be deleted, simply because it has nothing to do with this poll.

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pyde_pypper
Macdaddy Pimp

Verizon Wireless
Verizon V9M RAZR2
Telus-V9m S/W TLSV94_01.1C.00r on VZW

Does "Click to Activate" for Internet Explorer bug you?

Posted:

lol...what are you hiding yourself :wink:

kashzone
well seasoned

Re: IE "Click to activate" -- does it bug you?

Posted:

6ad172f90b="vishun wrote:
if you have internet explorer you most likely have experienced "click to activate" for active content such as flash (like the video guides we have in the guides)

active content? flash? awuhzuh?! so you know how sometimes you goto a web site and theres stuff that moves, fades, plays music, video, etc.... and sometimes when you put the mouse over it, a grayish border appears around the flash content... then you click it... and then you can click on something within the flash movie

thats "click to activate" -- for instance on a music player that does not have click to activate fixed, if you goto press pause, you click the pause button... it doesnt pause... why? because that first click was to actually activate the flash content

does this bug you? or would it just be a lil nicer if you didnt have to double click flash content the first time? especially considering that flash content so so common now a days.

NOTE: if you post back rants about how the pc, internet explorer, or microsoft sucks -- they will be deleted, simply because it has nothing to do with this poll.

It's a way to /help/ you and stop active content from infecting your PC. They figure, if you click on it, then you know about it, and want to use it, rather than letting the script run by itself.

styol's picture
styol
webradio.vishun.com

Verizon Wireless
V3m
old school

Does "Click to Activate" for Internet Explorer bug you?

Posted:

right right thats what i thought too until i did a little searching yesterday and found out that they added that because they lost a legal battle in court surrounding a patent law with the and tag

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1895907,00.asp

kashzone
well seasoned

Does "Click to Activate" for Internet Explorer bug you?

Posted:

ea91ae34ca="styol wrote:
right right thats what i thought too until i did a little searching yesterday and found out that they added that because they lost a legal battle in court surrounding a patent law with the and tag

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1895907,00.asp

Ohhh.. I see :)

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