/* activateActiveX --------------- Purpose: Dynamically replace any elements that will be affected by the new security feature in IE6/IE7 that requires a user to click certain types of elements to activate them before use. Usage: Include this file in the section of your html document using the following... Since this script is in response to a software patent lawsuit, I feel it necessary to state the following... License: activateActiveX is Copyright (C) 2006 Jason Baker (therippa AT gmail.com). It is available as open source code from: http://therippa.blogspot.com This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html */ //trap onload event window.onload = function () { //Determine browser, we only need this for Internet Explorer if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") { //Array of elements to be replaced var arrElements = new Array(3); arrElements[0] = "object"; arrElements[1] = "embed"; arrElements[2] = "applet"; //Loop over element types for (n = 0; n < arrElements.length; n++) { //set object for brevity replaceObj = document.getElementsByTagName(arrElements[n]); //loop over element objects returned for (i = 0; i < replaceObj.length; i++ ) { //set parent object for brevity parentObj = replaceObj[i].parentNode; //grab the html inside of the element before removing it from the DOM newHTML = parentObj.innerHTML; //remove element from the DOM parentObj.removeChild(replaceObj[i]); //stick the element right back in, but as a new object parentObj.innerHTML = newHTML; } } } } // JavaScript Document