Attention IE users!

[kengr]

Microsoft's most recent security update will "break" some websites...

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185300378

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One more reason...

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

...why Internet Exploder is my Browser Of Last Resort. Opera most of the time, Firefox when a site isn't willing to play nice with Opera, and IE when nothing else will work (almost always because of some proprietary Microsoft stuff).

OTOH, maybe this change will mean that more sites will run on other browsers.... Nah, MS wouldn't do something that would benefit users of other browsers.

Re: One more reason...

[kengr]

It's actually not MS's fault this time. They had to make the change because someone patented the "autostart" of embedded content, and they didn't feel like paying the licensing fees.

The patent holders just haven't gone after the other browsers yet.

Read the linked article.

Basically, it's another (likely) unjustified software patent being used to hold companies (and users) up to extortion.

It's been known about for a couple of years. Web site designers are going to have to rework a lot of pages. Many haven't.