I have a client who has several "flash buttons" on his website.

The problem is that none of the work any more because Internet Explorer displays a "Click to activate and use this control".

So when the visitor clicks the button, nothing happens (because the click does nothing except "activate" the button).. and they get confused and think the buttons don't work.

They have to double-click the button in order to follow the link it has... :(

Is there some way to automatically activate these buttons?

Or do we need to go back to using animated gif file again? :confused:

http://www.mix-fx.com/flash-prompt.htm

use swfobject
it's a javascript div replacement that works great with IE

sorry, http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/