Microsoft recently lost a legal battle with a patent holder about the way Internet Explorer displays OBJECTs and EMBEDs in webpages. Microsoft then decided to update its Internet Explorer browser with changes requiring user input to display and activate ActiveX based media.
This affects Flash files, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java , Adobe Acrobat among others. It means users have to click the object first in order to activate its functions.
The only problem is that the browser keeps trying to load “2 items remaining” (shown in the info bar at the bottom) even though all items on the page have loaded. This will go on forever: progress bar shows the page is still loading as does the animated IE icon. Is there a solution for this?
Comment by mary ann — April 6, 2007 @ 8:42 am
The fix to this problem is to provide an absolute reference to the object in question. You can either put the entire URL in the href or object param or embed or whatever, OR you can put a base href tag with the base URL in your head. I tested this (on a live server) and it works perfect every time.
Comment by Daniel Dhillon — June 9, 2007 @ 10:41 am
StyleGrind trusts Site5
to host it's sites.
If u put this fix, IE6 has problem, IE7 its OK
Comment by ice9 — January 23, 2007 @ 8:42 am