Merlin: A way to annoy visitors using Internet Explorer

Just came across a pretty neat ActiveX control to annoy your visitors who use Internet Exploder. It embeds a Microsoft Agent into your webpage.

<object id="Merlin" width="0" height="0" classid="CLSID:D45FD31B-5C6E-11D1-9EC1-00C04FD7081F" codebase="#VERSION=2,0,0,0"></object>

<script type="text/javascript">Merlin.Connected = true;Merlin.Characters.Load("Char");Char = Merlin.Characters.Character("Char");

Char.Show();Char.MoveTo(600, 500);Char.Play ("Write");Char.MoveTo (100, 500);Char.Play ("Congratulate");Char.Think ("Hallowed are the Ori.");Char.MoveTo (100, 100);Char.Play ("DontRecognize");Char.Play ("Wave");Char.Hide ();</script>

It opens up an animated wizard a bit like the office assistant on your webpage. You can actually script it to do some real cool stuff like tell jokes, dance along to music, detect when someone is about to complain and ask if they would like help writing a complaint, etc.

There is a demo of what the Agent can do at Microsoft’s website

3 thoughts on “Merlin: A way to annoy visitors using Internet Explorer

  1. Is that Microsoft’s demo? Perhaps you need MS Agent isn’t installed or the Peedy character isn’t on your system. Or the demo I wrote?

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