Problem with I.E v 7.0 blocking Active content

[nexus7]

Hi; this is really off-topic, but I'm in a real fix and am wondering if anyone can help...
I am designing a website (not Entropia related) that is soon to go online, that will have various 'Active' content in its pages, such as a news-ticker. Unbelievably however, I have discovered that I.Explorer v 7.0 automatically blocks active content by default when ever I do a browser test (I use Dreamweaver...) with I.E.
This message as many will know is fairly standard and is along the lines of:
'I.E has blocked active content from being loaded..... Click here if you wish to allow the content.......' - or a message to this effect. So it is possible to instruct I.E to allow the active content at this point, except you get this small drop-down menu together with the subsequent message 'Are you sure you want to proceed...' - and one of the options in this menu is 'What's the risk?'. And there's the problem - many will click on this and and get a 'scare mesage' and so naturally leave the site.
Is there something I can embed in the web pages that will prevent I.E from doing this, or something else I can do?

Sorry for long post

[phunksta]

Have you built these objects yourself, or are they from the 'net?

If the latter, have you got some links to one that shows what they are?

[nexus7]

Many thanks. The news ticker is from the net via www.tickermyfeed.com.
The news feeder works fine with Mozilla Firefox my default browser, again it's only I.E v 7.0 that blocks it. I've emailed tickermyfeed and they replied asking me to submit the URL which of course I couldn't do as the site is still off line, and naturally I want it all ready before I ftp it, so I thought that reponse was odd as I explained to them in the email that it wasn't yet online... I suspect that tickermyfeed may know that this will happen with I.E v7.0, but I don't know this for certain

[phunksta]

Hi Nexus:

I had a go with that ticker thing just to see if I could re-create the problem.
It seems to work ok, but I do get a javascript error which is strange.

One thing - I've seen the message you have come up when you load an XML file in IE7 - perhaps somehow the XML is being fed into your page by tickermyfeed instead of the ticker?

[nexus7]

Many thanks phunksta. That must be the vertical newsfeed which I've not tried yet, but it seems that one generates an error message as well - lol.

I downloaded the code for the horizontal one and I just get the active content blocker message. So anyway, you got the active blocker message as well, which is not good, because that means all potential visitors using IE7 would get it, but at least now I know this doesn't only happen with my IE7.

What I did was, I downloaded the line/s of html as instructed on their site for the horizontal ticker and then just cut-n-pasted it into the html doc, and as I understand it, these lines of code calls-up at some point tickermyfeed to get the actual newsfeed, but this is what I thought it would do. I'm fairly certain I didn't download a ticker as such.

The code is:
<script src="http://www.tickermyfeed.com/feed.php?bla, bla....."> </script>

[phunksta]

I don't get the active content error I'm afraid. Do you get it if you go to the page in my example?

http://www.eu-chronicle.com/~ben/tickertest.html

I think it's most probably a problem at their end :(
I would look for some other RSS rendering widget - you may have more luck.

[nexus7]

Thanks for the example, I owe you one:).
No, I didn't get the active content blocker message with I.E7 although that's the vertical newsfeeder, and I didn't get a javascript error either.
I have to stick with a horizontal news feeder because only that will fit on my pages and look right, but I think there's a problem with that at tickermyfeed's end who still haven't given a 'qualified' answer to the problem, so I'll take your suggestion of looking elsewhere. If only everyone used Mozilla...