All in the <head> – Ponderings and code by Drew McLellan –

Eolas Patent Workarounds

Right at the bottom of this document. Microsoft suggests a solution work working around the “Press OK to continue loading the content of this page” dialog by using document.write in a linked JavaScript file to write the markup to the page. They even give an example of use.

I particularly like this bit:

The OBJECT element for an ActiveX control has a new attribute: NOEXTERNALDATA.

erm, sorry, but no it doesn’t.

Anyway, keen to trying and find a useful solution for embedding Flash nicely without invalidating the page at all, I downloaded the new version of IE and set to work. Hmm … as far as I can tell so far, Microsoft’s document.write method simply doesn’t work. Has anyone else managed to get it working? I always get the alert, no matter what.

I’ll keep working on this later today, but if anyone has any comments I’d be pleased to hear them. Why won’t it work?