Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:41:42 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Seasonal Greetings...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 11/24/2006 01:47 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
> > omni at omniphile.com 11/23/2006 4:09:49 PM >>>
> >At 11/22/2006 03:30 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
> >>You'll need sound and video for this:  http://tinyurl.com/tftqd
> >
> >You'll also need Active-X enabled.
>
>Really?  I'm just a non-geeky enduser, and I'm using FireFox... which I
>thought was ActiveX free...

As far as I know, it is.  It does display that web page just fine though.

>So, how do I tell if the version of FireFox I'm running is running
>(allowing?) ActicveX.

Since there is no setting for it, and it isn't mentioned in Firefox's help,
and it's one of the more stupid security holes M$ ever invented, I'd guess
they don't support it...but the only way to be fairly certain would be to
ask them.

>And how does one know if a particular web page/site uses ActiveX?

In IE it will pop up and tell you when a page tries to use it if you have
it disabled.  In this particular case it probably isn't ActiveX, despite
what IE says, since Firefox handles the page just fine.  The page uses
Javascript, and Flash, and may be hiding more stuff in the php files that I
can't see with "view source", but there's nothing obvious that is doing
ActiveX.  IE tends to blur Active-X and plugins into one setting, and Flash
is a plugin, so it may be the Flash that IE is objecting to.  When I switch
from "don't" to "prompt" for that stuff, it pops up a different box asking
about "Active-X and plugins", rather than just "Active-X".  Most of the
page displays fine in IE...just the Flash animation is missing.  I don't
know, but I'm guessing that the "disable ActiveX and plugins" setting just
causes IE to object when an "object" tag is seen...and that's how Flash swf
files are handled.  The message it puts out to the user just says,
"Active-X" though.  Figures.

> >  For those not running in "screw-me"
> >mode, what would we have seen?
>
>As Mike Nelson noted, it's an oldie but goodie... and way, you would
>heard was the National Lampoon rendition of:
>
>Deteriorata

I saw it with Firefox...and I've got the record.  "National Lampoon Radio
Dinner".  Don't know if my record player will still work or not though, so
thanks!  ;-)

-- Mike B.
--
"Without facts, anything is possible." -- Michael D. Bartman