Drop-down or expanding text cause problems in Windows Server 2003

Question

At the risk of providing redundant information, here's a
problem we had, and how we solved it, in case it saves somebody
some sleuthing time:

Our developers implemented a program (EXE) that is installed
on Windows Server 2003 with my team's CHM file. During the course
of testing, we discovered that help topics that contain drop-down
or expanding text 
within drop-down hotspots caused problems if Explorer
Enhanced Security Configuration is activited.

Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration is activated by
default on Windows Server 2003, and it can (I'm told) also be
activated on other operating systems.

What happens is that a message is displayed. The dialog is
called "Internet Explorer", and the error message says:

quote:

Content within this application coming from the Web site
listed below is being blocked by Internet Explorer Enhanced
Security Configuration. about:security_hh.exe. ... If you trust
this Web site, you can lower security settings for the site by
adding it to the Trusted sites zone.... [Add] [Close]

It is a serious-looking error message with a big "not
allowed" symbol.

(The same problem would probably occur if we inserted
drop-down or expanding text within drop-down text. I haven't tested
it.)

To solve this and prevent end users from having to fiddle
with security settings, our developers changed the installation
program so that it makes our program a "trusted site".

Regards,
Eileen

EileenPalsson · Answer

There were various reasons for this, for example:
1. In this particular case, the target audience is the system administrator who is actually working on the server. No one else should be accessing it.
2. We wanted a single CHM file that is easy to zip up and distribute when we update it.
/Eileen

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