Slashdotted and reported by many other news sites, IE will change the way it handles ActiveX content. They tell you that there will be minimal impact, but I don’t believe it.
Some problems will be with ads, you’ll need 2 clicks to close those nasty things, to stop music and the case is worst in those sites with Flash navigation menus – and if you have Javascript disabled…. no way arround it. One word: Chaos.
The nice thing is that I use Firefox. 
Btw, can anyone tell me why this patent doesn’t affact other browsers like Firefox/Opera?
From what I’ve read the patent should effect all
browsers with plugins that can be automatically loaded and activated by web sites, but Microsoft is the one with deep pockets.
Although I could be completely wrong. The patent could just
cover technology more specific to how IE works…
Don’t quote me on this, but I seem to remember that they said that they were not going to sue open
source projects.
So I guess only Opera, and IE are at risk.
Links of
interest:
http://www.mozilla.org/press/eolas.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas
Good site… Nice
design