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TommyCarlier wrote:

Whether the ROMs are acquired illegally or not is not the point. Alwaysmc2 does not distribute any ROMs: he's just offering an application to catalogue ROMs. And his app also does not encourage anything illegal. Does a video catalogue application encourage people to download illegal videos? No. Please don't discourage young people from writing software and sharing it.

And as a young developer he should also be learning about ethics and copyright issues. I see too much of this where a young developer thinks he should be employed for decent money and expects a paycheck every week for what they produce yet turn around and copy software and music blatantly with no concern for what they are doing, blowing it off as they claim to not making any money off of it. I really feel the ethics of these youngsters (and sometimes not so young) is seriously questionable.

What happens when he starts writing software full time and gets his first piece of salable software after pouring all his savings into creating a startup with employees and everything, to then jump on Limewire of Torrent sites and find his software there for all to take, loosing everything he has worked hard to achieve. I wonder how he will feel then.

Well I would not want to come straight out and call you a thieving pirate would I? From you screenshots I dare say I could probably do that though. Don't think you should be in the forums advocating the building of a piece of software that is going to encourage you and others to break the law.

Just wondering what license your ROM's are under? How do you manage that and how do you pay the companies for having them?

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Dodo wrote:



littleguru wrote:  You inject the control via javascript. That's how you need to work around the "patent". There was a problem on how the stuff was integrated (and activated) in the website. Via JavaScript that patent claim couldn't be endorsed and that's why injecting the flash via javascript works without the "Click to activate this control" thing.

Nope JS doesn't do the trick here in the way I would want it. In IE7 you have an option to choose wether (all) controls need activation click or not. This also goes for the media player and quicktime controls (whatever...). However, for the Flash controls, sometimes this so called security feature doesn't work at all. I tried to disassemble (yay, SWF decompilers rock) those flash files, but I couldn't really figure what did the trick, and always this flash control was embedded without DOM JS but directly with object tags and simple embed.
Also, injecting the flash with JS doen't always override the click me please to activate me stuff.

Using SWFObject it doesn't require "click to activate". SWFObject is the defacto standard for embedding Flash on a page.

Its a shame that this went on for 18 months and measures had to be taken by developers to circumvent it. There are other slight advantages to inject via JS with something like SWFObject still but it means that we have to keep using it whether we want to or not as there is 18 months of IE6 and IE7 out there that potentially does not have the re-fix t deal with and accommodate. Opera I believe have also decided to make their browser Eolas compliant too.

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

I kindof liked it

You can't be serious...

Unfortunately after reading Molly H's blog it appears he has no idea what is going on in the land of one of MS's most used products in IE. I really hope the IE team start talking more openly about IE8, maybe they do need Bill to go down there and smack them around a bit to open channels again.

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Microsoft are giving their managers gmail accounts now???

Or is that Costello and Rudd?