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How to Fix Web Pages with Active Content

Fix it Faster

Of course, there's an easier way. I've created a utility called IEWebFix that will scan your Web site and do the job for you. You can download your copy of IEWebFix at http://www.rnsoft.com/en/products/iewebfix/

Launch IEWebFix
Click on the The Fix tab
Click on the Browse button next to Website Root, and find the IEBrokenExample folder that you've been working in and select it
Click the Examine button
Once it has scanned the site it should find 1 fix needed (in auto.html)
Click the Apply Fix button to apply the fix

IEWebFix scans the entire Web site looking for the offending codes. The codes are extracted, translated into JavaScript, and stored in the script directory (if you don't specify one, IEWebFix creates one called "_scripts"). It will do up to 5 fixes for free, and pricing for serial numbers starts at just $19.00.

Nothing is Perfect

Users of Dreamweaver need to be careful. If you created templates that contain active content elements within the template itself IEWebFix will fix your pages, but at the price of breaking the connection to your template. I'm working on a fix for that, and hope to have it available soon.

Update from Adobe (5/9/06)

On May 9 (as I was writing this very article) Adobe issued the Dreamweaver 8.0.2 Updater.

This product update improves code generated by Dreamweaver for server behaviors and for active content such as Flash.

This is such an important issue that Adobe didn't hesitate to incorporate new code generators for Flash. I also read that they're including a method for transitioning existing pages. Dreamweaver users should download the update at http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/downloads_updaters.html.

If you're a Dreamweaver MX or MX04 user, Adobe has been silent on this front. I recommend the use of IEWebFix.

Want to Know More?

More information about this problem is available at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp
http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/articles/devletter.htm

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