how do sites run in IE without asking for "allow scripts/activeX"?

Question

I have tried googling this and have not come up with any good leads...

I have a webpage I'm testing (it's an html document on my local machine).

When loaded, IE asks if I want to allow scripts and activeX (I don't get why they are considered equally dangerous)

Popular sites like cnn.com and stackoverflow.com don't ask me if I want to run scripts, they just do. How and why does this occur? Do I have to do something special to keep this from happening? (There is a prompt, but I don't want this to appear for my normal users)

Answer 1

Somehow IE trusts local documents less than the ones on the Internet. Which is counter intuitive. But I'm sure there is a reason... what has no reason or explanation, however, is that if you put the following

<!-- saved from url=(0017)http://localhost/ -->

at the top of your document, IE will trust it more.

(also how come there is no WTF tag on StackOverflow? Desperately needed)

Answer 2

It's because those site aren't running locally, they are running on some other server somewhere else.

If you check out Tools->Internet Options for IE and look at Security, Privacy and especially "Advanced". You'll see a whole host of options.