"Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote

| >    That kind of thing. I though MS were brilliant with
| > ActiveX. They just didn't see the security problems
| > coming.
|
| Whereas some of us saw ActiveX for the first time and shook our
| heads in sorrow because it looked like the most stupid idea we'd seen
since
| email clients that allowed attachments to execute.
|

  You really thought that back then? It's what allowed
them to beat Netscape. For years it was a brilliant
design. It still is. It's just not safe. I write a lot of
HTAs, using script and COM for the functionality and
IE for the GUI.

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