activex

Microsoft announced this week that they were going to stop purposefully breaking Internet Explorer's activex controls, rolling back the "click to activate" activex message that has been wasting the time and annoying the hell out of web developers for the past two years. According to the MSDN blog that announced the change this change won't require any actions on the part of developers:

It’s important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing webpages, and no new actions for developers creating new pages. We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require “click to activate” will no longer require the control to be activated. They’ll just work.

But, what about all of those people (myself included) who had to use all sorts of hacks and javascript embedding methods to work around this idiotic IE "quirk"? Also, are there any modules that include hacks to remove this error? If so they may need to get updated to reflect the change.

Anyway, at the very least future development that includes video and other embedded media should become a bit less of a pain.