1. /*
 2. activateActiveX
 3. ---------------
 4. Purpose:  Dynamically replace any elements that will be affected by the new security feature in IE6/IE7 that requires a user to click certain types of elements to activate them before use.
 5. 
 6. Usage:  Include this file at the end of your html document using the following...
 7.     <script language="JScript" type="text/jscript" src="activateActiveX.js"></script>
 8.     
 9. 
10. 
11. Since this script is in response to a software patent lawsuit, I feel it necessary to state the following...    
12. 
13. License:
14. activateActiveX is Copyright (C) 2006 Jason Baker (therippa AT gmail.com). It is available as open source code from:
15. http://therippa.blogspot.com
16. 
17. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
18. 
19. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
20. */
21. 
22. 
23. //Determine browser, we only need this for Internet Explorer
24. if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
25.     
26.     //Array of elements to be replaced
27.     var arrElements = new Array(3);
28.     arrElements[0] = "object";
29.     arrElements[1] = "embed";
30.     arrElements[2] = "applet";
31. 
32.     
33.     //Loop over element types
34.     for (n = 0; n < arrElements.length; n++) {
35.     
36.         //set object for brevity
37.         replaceObj = document.getElementsByTagName(arrElements[n]);
38.         
39.         //loop over element objects returned
40.         for (i = 0; i < replaceObj.length; i++ ) {
41.         
42.             //set parent object for brevity
43.             parentObj = replaceObj[i].parentNode;
44.             
45.             //grab the html inside of the element before removing it from the DOM
46.             newHTML = parentObj.innerHTML;
47.             
48.             //remove element from the DOM
49.             parentObj.removeChild(replaceObj[i]);
50.             
51.             //stick the element right back in, but as a new object
52.             parentObj.innerHTML = newHTML;
53.         
54.             }
55.         }
56.     }
57.     
58.