Beacuse of the ActiveX issue and how it affects the user experience I
know ActiveX controls and Java Applets now require a user to activate
them before the user can interact with the control.

I know that without activation, "users won't be able to directly
interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded by the APPLET, EMBED
or OBJECT elements without first activating
the user interface with an extra mouse click." (see
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1943847,00.asp)

So here is a question:

1) Are flash banners controled by APPLET's, EMBED, or OBJECT elements?
 If they are, then what is the workaround for flash banners so they
work properly on a website?

I have a flash designer, and I want to give him the exact workaround
so we don't have these issues.  IPlease provide a link to something
that dicusses making the fix in a flash banner?

Thanks,


Jeff

As far as I know Macromedia Dreamweaver version 9 can fix it
automaticlly if you update it to latest dreamweaver update on the
macromedia site.In case you use Macromedia products.

You're getting a few things mixed up, I believe.

Yes, you need to use OBJECT or EMBED tags to load Flash objects. 
However, for any user with the Flash plugin already installed (which
is most of them), there is no "activation" required.  The Flash object
will simply load and proceed to play.

ActiveX and Java are completely independent of Flash.  Since ActiveX
and Java objects not only deliver content, but can interact with the
client's computer LOCALLY (ex. you can have an ActiveX file uploader,
or an ActiveX object which scans the user's file system for a
particular file), there are some serious security risks with such
objects, and thus they require the user's authorization to run in any
web page.

You DO NOT need Java nor ActiveX to load Flash objects. Also, using
ActiveX is generally a very BAD idea, because it ONLY works with MS
Internet Explorer browser.  Anybody using Mac Safari, Firefox, Opera,
Mozilla, or any other web browser (which is now makes up more than 25%
of users on the net, see
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp) will NOT be able
to use ActiveX controls on your site.

Hi,

Flash's elements are controlled by embed and object.
OBJECT's elements are for Internet Explorer's activeX control, EMBED
for any other browser.
 
I'm using deconcept SWFOBJECT (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/)
to include flash in my webpages. It's a small javascript
(http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/swfobject_source.js) that
generate everything you need to display your flash files, in any
browser without any activeX issue.

How it works (example from deconcept's site) :

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
		
<div id="flashcontent">
  This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
   var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7", "#336699");
   so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

Where movie.swf is your swf movie (!)
mymovie, the ID of your swf
200 : width 
100 : height
7 : Flash version needed (could also be "6.0.65", or "8")
#336699 : background color.

so.write("flashcontent"); will insert the flash inside the 
<div id="flashcontent">

You can also use flashvars, salign, quality or wmode, using so.addParam
You just need to read the faq ! 

You can also display an alternative content in <div
id="flashcontent"></div> for search engines, javascript's disable
browsers or people without the plugin. There's also some stuff about
plugin detection in the faq.

See swf object in action here :
http://www.slideshowpro.net/demo/demo_default.php

David

Hi.. 
I used this technique for my e-learning projects... it works great.
http://www.leveltendesign.com/tools/click-to-activate.php