IEWebFix 1.1 released

Recent changes to Internet Explorer 6 are set to impact a large number of websites, and one Mac developer has produced a solution for Web developers. After Microsoft lost a lawsuit to a small company named Eolas, the Seattle-based software giant elected to break seamlessly-integrated active content elements in Web pages and launched the new behavior as part of a "non security update" patch to Internet Explorer in April. The resulting IEWebFix 1.1 software is designed to repair active content elements such as QuickTime or Flash movies, as well as ActiveX components. IEWebFix is available for $20, and is compatible with Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

The application examines the HTML, XHTML, XML, ASP, JSP, PHP, and CFM files within a website and creates a list of pages that match a search for the offending tags. Users can then apply the fix and IEWebFix will parse each file and extract the offending code, placing it in a Javascript function in an external file, linking to that file, and then calling the function (adhering to the Microsoft solution described on its website).

by MacNN Staff