According to this Microsoft have released an update which will force you to click on any embedded content to be able to interact with it, in Internet. This includes flash and videos. You’ll be able to watch the video but to pause it you will first have to click it to be able to pause or adjust the volume. In addition, as the article points out, it will be twice as hard to close the flash ads which appear over content. Its all because of the Eolas patent case.

This will be hell for web developers although there is a workaround which is to add the tags with Javascript, this is not covered by the patent and encouraged by Microsoft. I guess the best thing is :

<script>
document.write(' </script>
<noscript>
<embed....>
</noscript>


[Via Kottke]

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