What's the latest about flash movies on freesites?

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Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

It creates code that uses Javascript so I guess that's not such a good thing.

The Eolas patent disallowed microsoft to automatically start applications without a click that are embedded on a page. As a result, the workaround was a javascript widget that clicked the video and started it, which works around the patent. I would suspect that is the javascript that is being supplied, and, since the license agreement with Eolas, shouldn't be required.