My Friday was made far less merry by a co-worker forwarding me a Cnet article on Microsoft’s plans to alter the active content experience after all. I seriously checked to see if it were just a joke before posting. There are few companies that can cast Microsoft as the good guy, but Eolas is going for it.

Macromedia has a page for the active content workaround which is inactive right now, but I guess if this pans out, it will come back. Luckily I think most of the Flash HTML templates do take care of the issue. But still, don’t be messing with my plugins! For a summary of the Eolas workarounds, here is a pretty good blog post on it.