IE and embed problem

Nothing easy about it.
If your Web pages include content that uses ActiveX (QuickTime, Flash and Real) you'll need to edit your html page code.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=445948&tstart=0
The link above describes the issue and some users solutions.

Apple seems to have a few solutions, can they do the job for you?

<http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html>

and

<http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedfaq.html>

I'm sure Apple has used some software tool to "parse" their existing page code to add the new javascript tags. They have millions of pages with QuickTime content. I've looked at the page source code for their movie trailers pages and every one I visited has the new code.
Since all of my pages are "custom" made and make various different object and embed tag code combinations I can only make the changes by "hand coding".
I don't know if Apple will automatically edit existing Movie Homepages or iWeb sites that use the older code. I've visited some some older Homepage and iWeb movie pages and all I see is the older page code.
The new code replaces all of the object and embed tags with lines of code that look something like this:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!--
QT WriteOBJECT('http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/clone/clonedbaby.mov', '550', '401','','controller','false','emb#bgcolor','000000','autoplay','true','loop',' true','cache','true','kioskmode','true');
// --></script>
This is in addition to a site wide use of a special javascript file that "interprets" this new code and passes on the other needed tags to call ActiveX on IE browsers or older "Netscape style" plug-ins like those used on Mac's.

If a visitor comes to your pages that hold QuickTime content using M$ Internet Explorer (still over 80% of browser usage) and your page code hasn't been updated they will not see your QuickTime content.
The M$ update went out this week and as more users install it we'll be seeing countless posts at these Discussions pages.

Actually, visitors to the site using IE will be able to see the content, but they will have to explicitly allow the ActiveX control to load.

Why doesn't Microsoft just add support for Internet plug-ins, which can run in a 'sandbox' and stay safe in ways that ActiveX cannot. Then we can eliminate all this special coding for IE and just use the same code with IE that we use with EVERY OTHER BROWSER?!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.