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The Changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer

The Changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer. Agenda. 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

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The Changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer

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  1. The Changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  2. Agenda 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 Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  3. What’s happening? • 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 <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags in Internet Explorer will be handled differently depending on how they are used. • The change impacts display of “Active Content” Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  4. Introduction: Active Content What is 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… Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  5. How it impacts experience How will the user experience change? • 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 Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  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: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

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

  8. Technical Overview: The Object/Embed Tag <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/ flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="happy" align="middle"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="happy.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="happy.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="happy" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /> </object> Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  9. Won’t Work: HTML embedding <html> <head></head> <body> <object ...> <embed ... /> </object> </body> </html> Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  10. Won’t Work: Inline script-generated <html> <head> <script> var doc = document; doc.write(“<OBJECT...”); doc.write(“...”); doc.write(“<embed.../>”); doc.write(“</OBJECT>”); </script> </head> <body></body> </html> Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  11. <html> <head></head> <body> <object ...> <embed ... /> </object> </body> </html> <html> <head> <script> var doc = document; doc.write(“<OBJECT...”); doc.write(“...”); doc.write(“<embed.../>”); </script> </head> <body></body> </html> Won’t Work: Externalized with IFRAME <html> <head></head> <body> <IFRAME src=“Ex1or2.html” ...> </IFRAME> </body> </html> or + Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  12. Resources: Solutions 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 LineUtility (Macintosh, Windows, and Unix platforms) • Visual Update Utility (Macintosh, Windows) • Web ServerModule (IIS 5 and 6 and Apache 2.0, Windows and Unix platforms) • Distributed for free under an open-source license and supported Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  13. Solutions: Availability Are all the solutions available now? • JavaScript updates available today • Other utilities in a private beta, available early November • We encourage visitors to apply to participate in beta Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  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 Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

  15. Thank you Questions and Answers Visit the Active Content Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent

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