ActiveX Content in a local web page, and “the mark of the web”

Question

I\'m trying to make a webpage that people will run from their hard drives, locally, and this page will show a .wmv video (which is also stored locally), using Windows Media

Answer 1

I wasted hours on this problem. Even tried .HTA extension instead of HTML, that worked, but I did not like the .hta application staying open and hanging around like a sore thumb.

Saving the HTML file in UTF-8 instead of ANSI made the Mark of the Web work. This is insane. Thumbs down MS! Why couldn’t this be documented?

The code below is saved as HTML in UTF-8 format and it works for me.