Interactive buttons with hover images and security warning

[Ted]

I am quite new to website development. I have included the menu buttons for
the website I am developing on an editable area on a template. When I
preview the site in the browser, the following appears in a security bar at
top of screen ‘To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has
restricted this file from showing active content that could access your
computer'. I know that I can turn this warning off in IE, but is there a way
of presenting hover / selected images without this security warning
appearing?

 

[Rev]

I am also very new to Web development.
You can disable Active Content Blocking by opening Internet Options (from
IE, select Tools-Options) go into the Advanced tab and scroll down to the
Security heading. The first two check boxes under the Security heading on the
Advanced tab are Allow Active Content from CDs to run on My Computer and
Allow Active Content to run on My Computer. The first one I always keep
unchecked because I know what I’m putting in my cd rom is safe, I either got
it from Microsoft or I programmed it myself. The second one I only uncheck to
run my Windows Scripting Host VBScripts (HTAs).

The message you are getting is to protect you and your computer from
malicious script code embedded in web pages as active content. Active content
is more than just script that renders page layout, active content makes calls
to ActiveX Controls or Windows Scripting Host. ActiveX files, as well as
Windows Scripting Host are compiled executables that can be quite powerful, .
Since ActiveX, controls are compiled you don’t know what’s in them or if they
are safe, Microsoft added Active Script Blocking to protect your machine from
potentially unsafe ActiveX controls, JavaScript, and VBScript. With Windows
Scripting Host, you can do everything from access and list files and
directories, create and delete files and folders, access and change
configuration setting like file access and user security policies that
control user and file access, format hard disks, install software, all
automatically, without any user intervention. So you don’t want just any Web
page that wants it to be granted this ultimate responsibility and privilege..

In order to produce a rich user experience without running compiled
executables on the client machine, active content typically runs on the
server machine and renders the results back to the client as html or
streaming video or whatever... Since you are running your page on your
machine (the server and the host) you are getting these messages. Your
visitors will not have your active buttons blocked when the site is hosted on
a dedicated Web Server.
As a 10 year MS Access developer, I’ve always been more concerned about
gaining access to data on servers and protecting the data accessed from being
entered incorrectly or accidentally deleted. Internet and Web protocols are
like some crazy dream where Jupiter isn’t allowed in Uranus to hack Pluto...

 

[Ronx]

The warning will not appear when the site is published to a server.

 

[Gill]

I have just had the same message in the same situation. One (very simple)
page in the website gets this same message when viewed in a browser. This
page is where there are four pictures of four people, though at the moment
there is only hone hyperlink, apart from the standard navigation bar. The
idea is that the viewer can click on the picture to see a profile of the
person on another web page, from where they can also download their CV or
contact them by email. I can't for the life of me see what it is that
Internet Explorer is objecting to!

 

[Tom Willett]

It is an IE *security* feature on your local pc. It does not affect your
viewing when you are actually viewing the online web.

It can be disabled under Internet Properties | Advanced tab and under
Security, check:
"Allow Active Content to Run Files on My Computer"
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|I have just had the same message in the same situation. One (very simple)
| page in the website gets this same message when viewed in a browser. This
| page is where there are four pictures of four people, though at the moment
| there is only hone hyperlink, apart from the standard navigation bar. The
| idea is that the viewer can click on the picture to see a profile of the
| person on another web page, from where they can also download their CV or
| contact them by email. I can't for the life of me see what it is that
| Internet Explorer is objecting to!
|
| "Ronx" wrote:
|
| > The warning will not appear when the site is published to a server.
| > --
| > Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
| > Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
| > FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
| >
| > | > >I am quite new to website development. I have included the menu
| > >buttons for
| > > the website I am developing on an editable area on a template.
| > > When I
| > > preview the site in the browser, the following appears in a security
| > > bar at
| > > top of screen 'To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has
| > > restricted this file from showing active content that could access
| > > your
| > > computer'. I know that I can turn this warning off in IE, but is
| > > there a way
| > > of presenting hover / selected images without this security warning
| > > appearing?
| >
| >
| >