I was researching an issue for a buddy who was having trouble with the Sirius (sat radio) online player under Firefox. It seems that it won't show the "now playing" information (artist/track).

Turns out it's 'cause Sirius decided to use an Active-X control for that function (argh). Out of curiosity, I dug a bit deeper and found info buried in one of the Sirius user forums that talks about dealing with this.


There are three things that you can do to get Active-X working (actually embedded Media Player calls), one includes a plugin which will only let WMP talk to Active-X which contains most of the security issues around it.

I thought I'd pass along the root article:
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6620-0....ssageID=597485

 

just get the yahoo widgets engine and then the neoscrib's sirius tuner...

trust me, the sirius play blows chunks.

neoscrib's player looks like a gen 1 PnP player...

http://www.neoscrib.com/index.php?pa...6f5af78f135018

 

Yeup, that's a better option for Sirius, but the main point of my post wasn't about Sirius, it was about FireFox dealing with Active-X stuff at all.

 

I wish companies would make an habit of creating platform independent webpages. Not good by Sirius imo.

 

2 words: lazy programmers... plain and simple...