The Changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer

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The Changes to Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Agenda

• Whats Happening?
• An overview of the change to Internet Explorer
• How it impacts experience
• A brief demo of the new browser
• What resources are available
• A review of the technical solutions offered and
  other resources available
• Questions and Answers

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Whats happening?

• Microsoft announced changes to Internet
  Explorer.
• IE 5.5 on Win 2k IE 6 on XP
• IE 6 in Win 2003 Server
• All future versions of Win IE 6
• PocketPC and Windows CE updated later
• Mac browser will not be updated
• The ltOBJECTgt and ltEMBEDgt tags in Internet
  Explorer will be handled differently depending on
  how they are used.
• The change impacts display of Active Content

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Introduction Active Content

• What is Active Content?

• ActiveX controls intended for use in the browser
• Flash, Shockwave, Authorware Players
• Windows Media Player
• Apple QuickTime
• RealAudio, RealVideo
• Java applets
• Custom ActiveX controls
• More

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How it impacts experience

• How will the user experience change?

• Today there is a seamless experience
• The future IE prompt users to accept the
  invocation of each active content instance on a
  web page
• Updated sites will have a seamless experience
• Experience with other browsers unaffected

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How it impacts experience Example
A screenshot of the new experience taken with a
version of the new Internet Explorer for
developers to test code.
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How it impacts experience Timing

• When will the new IE be available?

• Test code for developers is available on MSDN
• General distribution and adoption early 2004
  (OEM, WindowsUpdate.com)

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Technical Overview The Object/Embed Tag

• ltobject classid"clsidd27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444
  553540000"
• codebase"http//download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc
  kwave/cabs/
• flash/swflash.cabversion7,0,0,0"
• width"550" height"400" id"happy"
  align"middle"gt
• ltparam name"allowScriptAccess"
  value"sameDomain" /gt
• ltparam name"movie" value"happy.swf" /gt
• ltparam name"quality" value"high" /gt
• ltparam name"bgcolor" value"ffffff" /gt
• ltembed src"happy.swf" quality"high"
  bgcolor"ffffff" width"550"
• height"400" name"happy" align"middle"
  allowScriptAccess"sameDomain"
• type"application/x-shockwave-flash"
• pluginspage"http//www.macromedia.com/go/getflas
  hplayer" /gt
• lt/objectgt

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Wont Work HTML embedding
lthtmlgt ltheadgtlt/headgt ltbodygt ltobject
...gt ltembed ... /gt lt/objectgt lt/bodygt lt/htmlgt
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Wont Work Inline script-generated
lthtmlgt ltheadgt ltscriptgt var doc
document doc.write(ltOBJECT...) doc.write(...
) doc.write(ltembed.../gt) doc.write(lt/OBJECTgt
) lt/scriptgt lt/headgt ltbodygtlt/bodygt lt/htmlgt
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Wont Work Externalized with IFRAME
lthtmlgt ltheadgtlt/headgt ltbodygt ltIFRAME
srcEx1or2.html ...gt lt/IFRAMEgt lt/bodygt lt/ht
mlgt
or

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Resources Solutions

• Solutions

• Manual JavaScript solution
• Less than 1 of browsers have JavaScript
  disabled
• Macromedia is working on solutions that dont
  require JavaScript
• Active Content Update Utilities (Solution
  Summary on Dev Center)
• Command Line Utility (Macintosh, Windows, and
  Unix platforms)
• Visual Update Utility (Macintosh, Windows)
• Web Server Module (IIS 5 and 6 and Apache 2.0,
  Windows and Unix platforms)
• Distributed for free under an open-source
  license and supported

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Solutions Availability

• Are all the solutions available now?

• JavaScript updates available today
• Other utilities in a private beta, available
  early November
• We encourage visitors to apply to participate in
  beta

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Resources Macromedia.com
The Active Content Developer Center

• Today
• JavaScript fix and documentation
• Solution Summary of upcoming Active Content
  Update Utilities
• Resources for hosting providers
• Find a developer
• Notification opt-in
• Forum
• Support Center
• Soon to be released
• Macromedia.com articles
• Active Content Update Utilities and
  documentation
• Localization localized websites and proactive
  communication

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Thank you

• Questions and Answers