[videoblogging] Microsoft Removes Internet Explorer's Click to Activate Annoyance

just saw this via drupal.org ... relates to video playback Begin forwarded message: Microsoft announced this week that they were going to stop purposefully breaking Internet Explorer's activex controls [12], rolling back the click to activate activex message that has been wasting the time

[videoblogging] Microsoft vs. Adobe

http://gigaom.com/2007/04/15/another-fight-microsoft-vs-adobe/ Another fight … Microsoft vs. Adobe It’s the season to rumble! Microsoft has just launched beta of a new media technology called Silverlight that essentially is going to compete with Adobe’s Flash technology. Adobe, meanwhile has

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

Actually, what we really need is SMIL support. i work with SMIL.if interested you can see SMIL being used to render 'vodcast playlists' on vlogdir.com.it converts RSS to SMIL, taking only the Quicktime compatible media enclosures (dependent on mime type specified in RSS at the moment) and

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

More on this:http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1944867,00.aspOn 3/31/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, what we really need is SMIL support. i work with SMIL.if interested you can see SMIL being used to render 'vodcast playlists' on vlogdir.com.it converts RSS to

[videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30643Does this affect videobloggers? What do ActiveX controls do?-Verdi-- Me: http://michaelverdi.comRD: http://evilvlog.comLearn to videoblog: http://freevlog.orgLearn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

ActiveX controls allow for embedding of media players, etc. (among other things) This could be a really big dragor just another reason for everyone to switch to firefox ;) On 3/30/06, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30643 Does this affect

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

i've heard this like 3 times now over the course of a few years it seems.i read this latest alert a few weeks ago and literally dismissed it until some noise erupts ;)so yeah, is this for real this time? On 3/30/06, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ActiveX controls allow for embedding of media

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

On 3/30/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've heard this like 3 times now over the course of a few years it seems. i read this latest alert a few weeks ago and literally dismissed it until some noise erupts ;) yeah, it's hard to say these days, but here is some info:

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

they load your videos!!! this looks like there's going to have to be some workarounds Michael Verdi wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30643 Does this affect videobloggers? What do ActiveX controls do? -Verdi -- Me: http://michaelverdi.com RD:

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

On 3/30/06, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they load your videos!!! this looks like there's going to have to be some workarounds I can think of one real easy one :) Michael Verdi wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30643 Does this affect videobloggers? What do

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

Hello,On 3/30/06, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30643Does this affect videobloggers? What do ActiveX controls do? In IE, ActiveX controls let you play video right in your web page. (So, no more doing that I suppose.)What we really need is

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft orders you to change your web-pages

This is for real, I've been seeing the issue on some MSIE installs but can't seem to pin down why some browsers exhibit the 'Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage alert and some don't. I have tested with the exact same versions on different machines and have seen different behavior.

Re: [videoblogging] Microsoft taking down Chinese bloggers

I heard about that a few (2?) months ago. I thought it was true. -Verdi On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:57 PM, Jay dedman wrote: I was researching MSN spaces as a blogging platform to integrate with Freevlog for Chinese speakers. i found this article:

[videoblogging] Microsoft

I hope that this hasn't been posted a bazillion times already, but I haven't seen it pop up here, so I thought I'd link to it. I'm SURE many of you have seen it already. http://humaninbox.blogspot.com/2005/11/microsoft-share-your-pain.html SPONSORED LINKS

[videoblogging] Microsoft Proposes RSS Extension

Found on Slashdot... http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/22/2210229 Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie said this week that his company is working on a new extension to RSS that would help users with different contact and calendar software and services synchronize each other's