Tuesday, October 7, 2003

Microsoft Confirms Changes to Windows, IE in Wake of Lawsuit, from WinInfo. Changes would be complete early next year. "The company will provide developers that use IE technology with documentation to help them modify their applications, Web pages, and browser plug-ins to work with the new plug-in scheme, which affects all Web pages that use plug-in technologies such as Adobe (formerly Acrobat) Reader, Apple QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, RealNetworks RealOne, all versions of Java, and Windows Media Player." Most everyone who has webpages with VRs would be affected by this. The updated Internet Explorer for Windows will no longer automatically render and display ActiveX content. Instead, it will prompt the user to confirm each ActiveX item on the page. You can imagine how painful this would be for someone browsing many QuickTime movies in one visit. Maybe painful enough they will switch browsers? Who knows. Apple has a webpage with instructions and showing proposed HTML changes for a QuickTime movie and QuickTime VR. 7:00:02 AM

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