The Autodesk DWF Viewer ActiveX Control is the top or "outermost control" and is invoked by the end user via an tag in his HTML page. The Autodesk DWF Viewer actually consists of several ActiveX Controls: This extra step has negative implications for applications that use DWF files within Internet Explorer such as the Autodesk People Finder. Perhaps in response to the litigation, Microsoft has released a "security patch" that requires the user to "press SPACEBAR or ENTER to activate and use this control." Jimmy Bergmark has a nice summary of the problem and a test page to determine if you have applied this patch. The case involves viewing dynamic content on the web and impacts how ActiveX Controls, such as the Autodesk DWF Viewer, get invoked. Microsoft is currently involved in a patent infringement lawsuit with the Eolas (Embedded objects linked across systems) spin off of the University of California. This post covers an updated way to embed DWF files in an HTML page to avoid the "extra step" that people who view your DWF files now have to execute. That post covered the parts of an HTML tag and what those parts mean. In an earlier blog posting, I shared information from the Autodesk DWF Viewer help file on how to embed a DWF file in an HTML page.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |