Turn off the Information Bar in IE
Start from the Internet Explorer in XP SP2, Microsoft added a new feature called Information Bar under the name of security. The Information Bar is used to block some actions that were considered “risky” for security, including
- Active X Install Prompts
- Non-user-initiated Download Prompts
- Pop-up Windows
- ActiveX Control Blocked Errors
- Local Machine Zone Lockdown
For any HTML file that contains javascript code it will show this Information Bar. Given the fact that most of modern webpage contains more or less javascript code, you may find that it is extremely annoying.
There are several options to turn this thing off, through the IE settings, or registry. But as a web page author we need a way to bypass the feature for ALL users that browsing our pages. Adding the following code to the very top (before the <HTML> tag) of the HTML document should help:
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
[reference]
- Windows XP SP2 Security “Features” by Richard Niolon, Ph.D.
