IMHO, besides being the platform for the most annoying web advertising, the Eloas patent dispute with Microsoft is turning into a pretty good reason not to use Flash in your website. Microsoft’s changes to ActiveX to comply with the patent means that a Flash based site will require a click in order for it to start. That gives a major AJAX/DHTML based apps in my opinion.
Microsoft IE ActiveX Update – Preview | Baekdal.com
The ActiveX update makes a very simple change. It prevents you from automatically interacting with an embedded object – like a flash movie. You have to activate it first.
May 18, 2006 at 12:27 am
Good! Flash sucks and I’d rather see it die. AJAX is the new flash, flash is dead.