Dax Pandhi's nAesthetic - Workaround for the CLICK TO ACTIVATE irritant

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Workaround for the CLICK TO ACTIVATE irritant

If you have a Flash control that needs to be "activated" - especially on a fully Flash site - you know how problematic and anti-productive it can be. Here's a workaround:

//work-around for IE "click to activate" object
var objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
{
objects[i].outerHTML = objects[i].outerHTML;
}

This code will "activate" all OBJECT tags in your page. Use with care. The irritant in IE may not fun, but the security concern is valid.

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Comments [3] | Trackback

8/6/2006 12:19:46 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)

What security concerns do you mean? The "click to activate this control" has nothing to do with security. It's because of a lost patent lawsuit with Eolas. The clicking or space bar lets them work around a technicality in the patent language.

Anyhow, doesn't this script wind up restarting the flash animation if it's already started? I tried doing something similar in window.onload and had problems.

Josh Einstein |josheinsteinAT NOSPAMhotmail dot com

8/17/2006 3:23:42 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)

Another solution. It uses javascript generation of the flash object.

http://www.chaliy.com/Sources/FlashControl/Default.aspx

This is wrapper on that solution.

Mike Chaliy |mikeAT NOSPAMchaliy dot com

6/2/2007 1:47:50 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)

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