doodlebee - 7:00 pm on Apr 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

Just thought I'd share, since this came up recently on a designer's list I'm on.

The Microsoft update is automatic - so yes, if you have your computer set to "automatic updates", you *will* be affected by this. (you *should* be affected already, as it happened April 11!) It's not just Flash they're targeting, but Active X controls ("embed" and "object" tags) - so Flash will be affected, but also QuickTime, Adobe, RealPlayer, Sun Java runtime and other controls like that.

On the list I'm on, there were two workarounds you could apply to your websites that would remove this irritation. One is javascript-based (sorry!), but it *does* validate and works like a charm. The other is recommended by Apple.

[blog.deconcept.com ] (the javascript one)
[developer.apple.com ] Apple's version

Hope this help you all out :)