Click to Activate and Use This Control, Internet Explorer 7 Fix

Why do I see a message prompting me to “click to activate and use this control” when I roll my mouse over a Flash animation?

This is a result of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer updates in V6 and V7.

Microsoft recently lost a legal battle with a patent holder about the way Internet Explorer displays objects and embeds in webpages. Microsoft decided to update its Internet Explorer browser with changes requiring user input to display and activate ActiveX based media.

Total Flash Integration

This affects all Flash animations but also other files such as QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java and Adobe Acrobat among others. It means users have to click the object first in order to activate its functions. This really makes a mess of a lot of existing websites and sometimes even makes them completely unusable.

Fisheye have found a work around, by inserting special code and embedding the flash movie within HTML, which basically means you don’t get this horrible message and don’t have to click twice.

Internet Explorer Integration

If your site suffers from this problem, we can embed your flash animations and controls for you, simply by tweaking the code on your site.

All we need is access to your FTP details and we can go in and fix your site.

Our flash embedding costs £49 per website

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