SideBar crashes when running ActiveX components that require

sidebar crashes running activex components require

SideBar crashes when running ActiveX components that require

If a Gadget calls an ActiveX object that in IE prompts for authorization (ie the prompt "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer. Click here for options...") SideBar crashes.
Surely it should prompt or close the Gadget, not crash.
Two ways to reproduce this are with Java or Shockwave:
1. With Java
gadget.html:
<html> <head> <title>Crash by Java</title> <style> body { width:120; height:120; } </style> </head> <body> <APPLET code="test.class" name="testjava" width=100% height=100%></APPLET> </body> </html>
test.class compiled from test.java:
import java.applet.*;
public class test extends Applet { public void init() { } }

2. With ShockWave
gadget.html
<html> <head> <title>Crash by ShockWave</title> <style> body { width:120; height:120; } </style> </head> <body> <EMBED TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="test.swf" width=100% height=100%> </body> </html>
test.swf can be any ShockWave app.

Jon Abbott wrote:

If a Gadget calls an ActiveX object that in IE prompts for authorization (ie the prompt "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer. Click here for options...") SideBar crashes.
Surely it should prompt or close the Gadget, not crash.
Two ways to reproduce this are with Java or Shockwave:
1. With Java
gadget.html:
html head title>Crash by Java</title style body { width:120; height:120; } /style /head body APPLET code="test.class" name="testjava" width=100% height=100%></APPLET /body /html
test.class compiled from test.java:
import java.applet.*;
public class test extends Applet { public void init() { } }

2. With ShockWave
gadget.html
html head title>Crash by ShockWave</title style body { width:120; height:120; } /style /head body <EMBED TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="test.swf" width=100% height=100% /body /html
test.swf can be any ShockWave app.

Spoke too soon, it's Shockwave and Java that crash it, Sidebar still crashes with a "Mark of the Web" added to gadget.html.

Why do you think this is an authenticode issue, and not some other bug? (Is there something that leads you to think that?) I ask, because I have seen a crash in Flash where the version of Flash running has a stack overrun, which Vista security measures detect and result in a forced crash. (This is the DEP and NX support in the OS, if you're familiar with it.)
-Bruce
"Jon Abbott" wrote in message

If a Gadget calls an ActiveX object that in IE prompts for authorization (ie the prompt "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer. Click here for options...") SideBar crashes.
Surely it should prompt or close the Gadget, not crash.
Two ways to reproduce this are with Java or Shockwave:
1. With Java
gadget.html:
html head title>Crash by Java</title style body { width:120; height:120; } /style /head body APPLET code="test.class" name="testjava" width=100% height=100%></APPLET /body /html
test.class compiled from test.java:
import java.applet.*;
public class test extends Applet { public void init() { } }

2. With ShockWave
gadget.html
html head title>Crash by ShockWave</title style body { width:120; height:120; } /style /head body EMBED TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="test.swf" width=100% height=100% /body /html
test.swf can be any ShockWave app.

I don't understand, what's a "Mark of the Web"?
-Bruce
"Jon Abbott" wrote in message

Spoke too soon, it's Shockwave and Java that crash it, Sidebar still crashes with a "Mark of the Web" added to gadget.html.

"Bruce Williams [MSFT]" wrote:

I don't understand, what's a "Mark of the Web"?
-Bruce
"Jon Abbott" wrote in message
Spoke too soon, it's Shockwave and Java that crash it, Sidebar still crashes with a "Mark of the Web" added to gadget.html.

"Mark of the Web" - forced IE to not block ActiveX components on the page. Add the following line to top of gadget.html:

"Bruce Williams [MSFT]" wrote:

Why do you think this is an authenticode issue, and not some other bug? (Is there something that leads you to think that?) I ask, because I have seen a crash in Flash where the version of Flash running has a stack overrun, which Vista security measures detect and result in a forced crash. (This is the DEP and NX support in the OS, if you're familiar with it.)
-Bruce
My mistake, as I said in the other post, it's not security causing it. Sidebar

has an issue when calling Flash or Java.
Flash, yes agreed DEP is killing Sidebar. Java is a similar issue.

I learn new things every day - thanks!
-Bruce
"Jon Abbott" wrote in message

"Mark of the Web" - forced IE to not block ActiveX components on the page. Add the following line to top of gadget.html:
!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet --

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