Okay, so everyone with Flash on their websites who was paying attention realized just recently that when you hover your mouse over your Flash or Shockwave objects, that you are getting this funny little message that says: "Click to Activate and Use This Control." For everyone who wasn't paying as close attention, you have or will get a call from your more particular clients who will ask you why their site doesn't act the way it's supposed to any more.

Why IE had to implement this behavior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas 
Adobe's Long Fix: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/articles/devletter.html
Microsoft's Long Fix: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp

The problem with their solutions is that if the user has JavaScript disabled, nothing is going to print to the page. Plus it takes to long. They have you create a javascript function that prints the object tag to the page. If we can fool IE into thinking we printed it to the page with JavaScript, though, we can avoid the prompt. Create an external .js file and name it ObjectFool.js and include the following text:

theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName('object');
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
 theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML
 }

The other good thing here is that if the user does not have JS enabled, IE will ask them to activate the control and that will be that - you don't have to worry about content not being delivered!

Next, for each page that has Flash on it, put the following tag just after the last Flash declaration on the page: .

 <script language="javascript" src="<%= SkinPath %>objectfool.js"></script>

* If you are implementing this solution in a DotNetNuke site, please make sure to include the SkinPath tag to tell the framework where to find it.