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chrischen on April 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in...

Didn't IE try this and developers got around it by using Javascript to embed flash?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9046245/Microsoft_dro...

Turns out Microsoft did it because of patent issues.

yuhong on April 13, 2012 [–]

The plug-in was still loaded and executed. It is just the interaction with the plug-in that required an extra click.

chrischen on April 13, 2012 | [–]

Yea but I don't recall anyone liking that interaction pattern.

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