Still a little confused as to why this has been introduced. As a web guru monkey, I’ve had my ear so close to the ground, I didn’t hear about it till it happened.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer ‘Active Content Update’ disables all Flash movies until the user clicks on them.

Some useful information from Macromedia, erm… I mean Adobe on the subject, points to using javascript to either document.write or creating a flash object. Interesting. It doesn’t really affect me, as we don’t do alot of Flash work at work, we try to keep everything pretty much straight forward and accessible to everyone, but its interesting. I’m going to be doing some hunting into the method behind Microsoft’s madness, as I’m not totally convinced as to why they’ve done it…

Adobe has released an active content update for Flash 8 publishing here