Comments on: Trivia Question http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/10/trivia-question/ You suspected it. Now you know it. Tue, 15 May 2012 21:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Director http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/10/trivia-question/comment-page-1/#comment-40 The Director Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:13:31 +0000 http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/10/03/trivia-question/#comment-40 Spoken like a true developer. That's the back story. The fix is still simple and readily available if the designers/developers bother to take the step of looking at their work in IE and realizing something is wrong. Spoken like a true developer.

That’s the back story. The fix is still simple and readily available if the designers/developers bother to take the step of looking at their work in IE and realizing something is wrong.

]]> By: RabidChipmunk http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/10/trivia-question/comment-page-1/#comment-39 RabidChipmunk Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:00:08 +0000 http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/10/03/trivia-question/#comment-39 This all occured because of a lawsuit against Microsoft using what was said to be "proprietary" methods to display an object in a web page through their browser. While (exagerated and made up number) 99% of developers on the web use this method and saw that it worked in IE similar to other browsers, the court still found Microsoft "in the wrong". Microsoft used its Windows Update feature to pass a patch to IE, that now causes this on IE with the patch installed. Many sites worked for years without this issue, and it became an acceptable, near universal, method for displaying the object in a browser. All of these sites simply haven't been updated, many simply because of the dated code or the sheer number of them in existance. Note: IE browsers without the patch still do not require the "click" before the object becomes usable. This all occured because of a lawsuit against Microsoft using what was said to be “proprietary” methods to display an object in a web page through their browser. While (exagerated and made up number) 99% of developers on the web use this method and saw that it worked in IE similar to other browsers, the court still found Microsoft “in the wrong”. Microsoft used its Windows Update feature to pass a patch to IE, that now causes this on IE with the patch installed. Many sites worked for years without this issue, and it became an acceptable, near universal, method for displaying the object in a browser. All of these sites simply haven’t been updated, many simply because of the dated code or the sheer number of them in existance.

Note: IE browsers without the patch still do not require the “click” before the object becomes usable.

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