MCMS and the ActiveX activation behavior change in Internet Explorer (last update: December 23rd, 2008)

Stefan explains how the ActiveX activation behavior affects MCMS

Andrew Connell [MVP MCMS] — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:47:54 GMT

Use of @ in the regular expression

Shaun McCarthy — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:18:55 GMT

Hey Stephen

I as just wondering why you are using an @ symbol in the regular expression:

string strRegExp = "<object[^@]*</object>";

Won't that cause problems with a placeholder that has an email address in it? e.g.

<PARAM NAME="HTML" VALUE="someone@somewhere.com">

Would "<object.*?</object>" be better?

Also, what happens if someone edits a page, and you don't save it to the posting (e.g. it fails validation), when you reload the page, the changes you made to the control will be gone, as the javascript retrieves it from the posting object, which hasn't been updated with the submitted changes.

re: MCMS and the ActiveX activation behavior change in Internet Explorer

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:55:48 GMT

Hi Shaun,

nice catch! I tested with .*? and .* but this did not do the trick. No idea why.
I ended up ignoring null bytes which should not be inside html content: [^\0]

Cheers,
Stefan

re: MCMS and the ActiveX activation behavior change in Internet Explorer (last update: Augst 10th)

Robert Joy — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:53:14 GMT

Wow, what a rediculous effort to go through just to have an unnessecary interruption to a web experience vanish. Hey, here's an idea, why not add the ability to turn this off via the Internet Options panel? Huh, who would of thought it could be so simple.

Looking for ways to simply life,

Robert Joy

re: MCMS and the ActiveX activation behavior change in Internet Explorer (last update: Augst 10th)

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:01:09 GMT

Hi Robert,

it was not Microsoft's decision to do this change.

Actually the was a court issue regarding patent rights which required this change. Microsoft is not allowed to add an option to turn this off using an option.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: MCMS and the ActiveX activation behavior change in Internet Explorer (last update: November 28th)

FE — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:59:10 GMT

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