More Eolas Panic-mongering
I’m still seeing blogs out there posting misinformation about the Microsoft IE Eolas Patent Suit Patch. All of the misinformation is regarding exactly how the patch will affect ActiveX controls embedded on a page. People are saying that the content “will not run until the user clicks on it”. This is simply not true. Code WILL execute, and your apps will run. The only difference is that the user must click once within the bounding box of the embedded content in order to interact with it.
This sort of panic-mongering is annoying to me. It’s a problem inherent with blogs. Bloggers who rush to publish stories without fact-checking first are doing a disservice to the community.
In this case, it is obvious. Anyone who writes something like “the flash content will not run” obviously never installed the patch to see for themselves what would happen, and yet there they write a two-page article about how this thing will break the internet and how you need to go back and install a bubble-gum and band-aids javascript hack to fix your pages. Oops, now there I go… that last statement was just a troll to get comments. 
